Sketchbook: Mount Desert Island, Maine

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with brown-fabric-covered cardboard covers with impressed design of dots. Sewn page block. Binding completely broken away from spine. Pages of darkened off-white wove paper, 13.9 x 22.5 cm. Drawings in graphite. Rear pastedown features a small seascape and a small sketch of a reclining figure. Also a map of Mt. Desert Island and surrounding area.

Dimensions

14.6 x 23.2 x 1.4 cm (5 3/4 x 9 1/8 x 9/16 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.