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Encampment Scene; verso: Study of a Soldier in Profile
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The drawing on the verso is made with the page vertically oriented.
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: Encampment Scene; verso: Study of a Soldier in Profile
Description:
The drawing on the verso is made with the page vertically oriented.
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