Sketchbook
19th century
Artists
Description
Sketchbook with green-moiré-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block, pages unbound. Ten pages of off-white laid paper, each 8.2 x 15.5 cm. One drawing, in graphite. Front pastedown has small mountain landscape drawn in graphite. Archives of American Art reel 688 numbers this book SG1.
Dimensions
8.3 x 15.7 x 0.3 cm (3 1/4 x 6 3/16 x 1/8 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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