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"Shelburne - July 30th, 59", from the Nova Scotia and New Hampshire Subjects Sketchbook
"Shelburne - July 30th, 59", from the Nova Scotia and New Hampshire Subjects Sketchbook
Object number1938.14.3.9

"Shelburne - July 30th, 59", from the Nova Scotia and New Hampshire Subjects Sketchbook

Date1859
Artist (American, 1823-1880)
CultureAmerican
MediumGraphite with traces of white gouache on beige wove paper
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
BibliographyIla Weiss, "Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford." Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987. p. 212. Avery, Kevin J. and Franklin Kelly, Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art 2003), repr. p 112, fig. 70. John Wilmerding. "American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875; Paintings, Drawings, and Photography." Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1980. fig. 153. p. 136.
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