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Wills Creek Landscape; verso: Tree; Male Profile Head; Kauterskill Falls
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The recto has an offset in white gouache from the verso of the preceding 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: Wills Creek Landscape; verso: Tree; Male Profile Head; Kauterskill Falls
Description:
The recto has an offset in white gouache from the verso of the preceding page.
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