DrawingsAmerican19th century

Partial View of Lake Placid, New York; verso: Landscape and Partial Landscape

1860-1863

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

One of the landscapes on the verso is oriented vertically to the page.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on buff wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

14.2 x 22.8 cm (5 9/16 x 9 in.)

Provenance

By descent through artist's family, 1880; Alice Carter Gifford, Cambridge, MA; bequeathed to her son Sanford Gifford, Cambridge, MA; his gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 2001.

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