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Landscape; Methodist Prayer Meeting, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
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The landscape is drawn with a vertical orientation to the book; the prayer meeting is drawn horizontally.
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: Landscape; Methodist Prayer Meeting, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Description:
The landscape is drawn with a vertical orientation to the book; the prayer meeting is drawn horizontally.
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