DrawingsAmerican19th century

Two Landscapes; verso: Cliff Scene with Figure

1861?

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

The drawing on the verso is vertically oriented 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.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Homosassa Jungle

Winslow Homer, 1904

Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Campanile of S. Stephano, Venice, Italy

Denman Waldo Ross, 19th-20th century

Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Yomei No Mon Nikko, Japan

Joseph Lindon Smith, 19th-20th century

Watercolor, white gouache and chalk over graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Scene on a Ship Deck

John Singer Sargent, 1876

Graphite on gray-green wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Saint Paul Preaching at Athens

John La Farge, c. 1884

Graphite on off-white wove paper mounted on heavy ivory wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Architectural Sketch at Welbeck Abbey, England

John Singer Sargent, c. 1900 - c. 1902

Graphite on off-white wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Study of Draped Knees for the Law; verso: Sketch for Warrior Angels at Right, both for "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library

John Singer Sargent, 1895 - 1916

Charcoal on heavy blue wove paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Study for Seated Angel at Left, "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library

John Singer Sargent, 1895 - 1916

Charcoal on blue laid paper

19th-20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Lady Playing the Harp; verso: Sketches

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, c. 1849-51

Watercolor on cream wove paper; verso: watercolor and graphite

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Aqueduct of Segovia

Denman Waldo Ross, 1895

Graphite on thin off-white wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Female Head, for "Mother Watching her Sleeping Child"

Washington Allston, 1814

Graphite and black and white chalk on blue-gray wove paper

19th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Amalfi

Joseph Lindon Smith, 1887

Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on brown wove paper

19th centuryAmerican