1854-1861
Sketchbook with green-paper-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of cream wove paper, 10.5 x c. 15.3 cm. Drawings made in graphite. Between the third and fourth page is a stub, where a page appears to have been cut from the book.
10.5 x 15.5 x 0.7 cm (4 1/8 x 6 1/8 x 1/4 in.)
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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