2001.163.11: Landscape; verso: Brocketts July 29
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2001.163.11
- People
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Sanford Robinson Gifford, American (Greenfield, NY 1823 - 1880 New York, NY)
- Title
- Landscape; verso: Brocketts July 29
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Landscape; verso: Rustic Doorway
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- sketchbook page, drawing
- Date
- 1860
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/147318
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 14 x 24.2 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: verso, l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Bracketts - July 29
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- 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
- 2001.163.11
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- The drawing on the verso is made in a vertical orientation.
- Commentary
- The doorway on the verso is probably, as indicated by the inscription, Brockett's boarding house in Kaaterskill Clove. See Ila Weiss, "Poetic Landscape: the Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford," Newark, 1987, p. 90.
Publication History
- Kevin J. Avery and Franklin Kelly, ed., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York; New Haven and London, 2003), pp. 33, 134, p. 34 verso repr. fig. 27
- Kevin J. Avery, Sanford R. Gifford in the Catskills, exh. cat., Thomas Cole National Historic Site (Catskill, New York, 2017), p. 37 note 24
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