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Partial Rockaway Beach Scene; verso: Two Caricatured Faces
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This page is drawn upside down from the orientation of the book.
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
Title: Partial Rockaway Beach Scene; verso: Two Caricatured Faces
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This page is drawn upside down from the orientation of the book.
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