Sketchbook: New England and Hudson Valley Landscapes

Artists

Description

Brown fabric-covered cardboard covers with torn pencil sleeve. Sewn page block. Binding completely broken. Pages of buff wove paper, each 14.2 x 22.8 cm. Rounded corners. Drawings in graphite, one with white chalk. Thirty-one pages of drawings; pp. 32 through 37 are blank. The front pastedown has small landscape sketches which may relate to the inscription there. The rear pastedown has a drawing of a landscape with a figure.

Dimensions

15 x 23.5 x 1.4 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/4 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.