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A sketch of farmers working; a sketch of a man resting against a boulder, August 12, 1859; and three compositional landscape studies, from the Nova Scotia and New Hampshire Subjects Sketchbook
A sketch of farmers working; a sketch of a man resting against a boulder, August 12, 1859; and three compositional landscape studies, from the Nova Scotia and New Hampshire Subjects Sketchbook
Object number1938.14.3.2

A sketch of farmers working; a sketch of a man resting against a boulder, August 12, 1859; and three compositional landscape studies, from the Nova Scotia and New Hampshire Subjects Sketchbook

Date1859
Artist (American, 1823-1880)
CultureAmerican
MediumPencil Drawings
DimensionsSheet: 6 x 9 7/16 in. (15.24 x 23.97 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Edith Wilkinson, class of 1889
On View
Not on view
Period19th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned (page two): S R Gifford
InscribedInscribed (page two): 15. 10th St. New York
BibliographyPhagan, Patricia, Past Time: Geology in European and American Art, (London: D Giles Limited, 2018) p.68-69. repr. p.69, fig. 19.
Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, NY, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection" 5 Oct. - 20 Dec. 2000. Cat. no.19, repr. p.59

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Past Time: Geology in European and American Art," September 21 - December 9, 2018. Cat. no. 19, repr.

Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, "Past Time: Geology in European and American Art," February 16 - May 12, 2019. Cat. no. 19, repr.
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email loebcollections@vassar.edu
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