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Sketchbook

DrawingsAmerican19th century

Sketchbook

19th century

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

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.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Sketchbook with green fabric covers

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

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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