Sketchbook: Washington and Oregon
1874
Artists
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.
Dimensions
12.2 x 21.9 x 1.4 cm (4 13/16 x 8 5/8 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.
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