Sketchbook ("1851 / Northern New York")

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with brown-paper-covered cardboard covers, embossed with ivy leaf pattern. Brown leather spine. Sewn page block (binding broken). Pages of off-white wove paper, 14.2 x 22 cm. Drawings mostly graphite, some with white chalk added; one watercolor. The page following p. 1 has been cut out and a stub remains. Front pastedown has a small graphite sketch of a tent. Rear pastedown has graphite sketches of a standing man in a fez, seated figures, and a circular landscapes.

Dimensions

15 x 22.6 x 1.5 cm (5 7/8 x 8 7/8 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.