Place MadeMASSACHUSETTS, United States
Title
The Hawks
Datelate 19th Century
Mediumwash drawing on paper
Donor credit lineGift of Mrs. Eliot S. Knowles
Object number2009.68.26.1
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionBy Frances [Lincoln] Eliot Gifford. Wash drawing on paper. One flying hawk* [bird]; another in a nest in a tree. *Circus hudsonius, northern harrier, also archaically called “marsh hawk”
The attribution on this may be wrong, as it is signed FEG, it could be by F.L.E.G. Kleiminger's mother, Frances Eliot Gifford. This signature should be compared to her notebooks to make the attributoin.
On View
Not on view
Gifford, Frances [Fannie] Eliot
![[Personal correspondence with numerous American writers, artists, and public figures and additional correspondence relating to Gifford's growth as an artist, women artists in New Bedford, acceptance in artistic circles, and travels to Europe and Africa (1870, 1874)] :](/internal/media/dispatcher/88718/thumbnail)
Gifford, Robert Swain (1840-1905)*
1722-1968
Gifford, Frances Eliot
Gifford, Frances Eliot
Brock, Frances Lincoln
Unknown
T.E.M. White
George F. Parlow, Photographer
Gurney
