DrawingsAmerican19th century

Shawangunk Mountains Landscape; verso: Landscape and Partial Landscape

1861

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

Landscape on verso is vertically oriented to 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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