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Partial Landscape, Mount Desert Island (recto and verso)
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Department of Drawings
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.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Sanford Gifford
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