2001.166.1-10: Sketchbook: Washington and Oregon
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2001.166.1-10
- People
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Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
- Title
- Sketchbook: Washington and Oregon
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- sketchbook
- Date
- 1874
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/169983
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Sketchbook with beige-fabric-covered cloth covers
- Dimensions
- 12.2 x 21.9 x 1.4 cm (4 13/16 x 8 5/8 x 9/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: graphite, front pastedown: S R Gifford 51 West 10th St New York
- inscription: front pastedown, graphite, in artist's hand: Charley
- inscription: front pastedown, black ink: Fred
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sanford Gifford
- Accession Year
- 2001
- Object Number
- 2001.166.1-10
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Sketchbook with beige-fabric-covered cardboard covers. Dark green pencil sleeve. Sewn page block; pages of cream wove paper, 11.5 x 21.6 cm. 28 pages altogether, the last 18 blank. The book's first page has been torn out. A landscape drawing on the front pastedown continues onto the first extant page of the book.
Publication History
- Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1987), pp. 140-142, 332
- Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums Annual Report 2001-2002 (Cambridge, MA, 2003), p. 23
Exhibition History
- Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/2006 - 10/22/2006
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Verification Level
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