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Two Juniata River Landscapes; verso: Faint Landscape
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One of the landscapes on the recto is oriented vertically; one is oriented horizontally to the page.
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: Two Juniata River Landscapes; verso: Faint Landscape
Description:
One of the landscapes on the recto is oriented vertically; one is oriented horizontally to the page.
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