DrawingsAmerican19th century

Partial Mountain Landscape; verso: Standing Soldier with Rifle

1864

Artists

Sanford Robinson GiffordArtist

Description

The landscape on the recto is drawn upside down from the orientation of the book. The soldier on the verso is drawn with a vertical orientation.

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

8 x 12.6 cm (3 1/8 x 4 15/16 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.

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