DrawingsAmerican19th century

Landscape; Methodist Prayer Meeting, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania

1852

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

The landscape is drawn with a vertical orientation to the book; the prayer meeting is drawn horizontally.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on slightly darkened off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

22.2 x 14.4 cm (8 3/4 x 5 11/16 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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