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Two Male Profile Heads; Two Sketches of a Dog; verso: Inscription; Male Profile Head

Sanford Robinson GiffordLinkedCulture matchlcp-fbebb29ae3b1

Date: c. 1845-1847
Medium: Black and brown pencil on off-white wove paper
Culture: American
Department: Department of Drawings
Institution: Harvard Art Museums
Object ID: 146975

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The inscription on the verso is vertically oriented.

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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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