Sketchbook: Adirondacks, Pennsylvania

Artists

Description

Sketchbook with black-paper-covered cardboard covers, embossed with a pattern of leaves. Black-leather-covered spine with vertical gold stripe. Paper covering is torn away at l.r. of front cover, l.l. of back cover. Pages of off-white, buff, brown, and cream wove paper, each 8.8 x 14.8 cm. Sixty pages altogether; blank pages were not given database records. On the rear pastedown are sketches of a horse's head, a cow, and figure sketches.

Dimensions

9.4 x 15 x 1.4 cm (3 11/16 x 5 7/8 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.