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Merganser Ducks
Frances Eliot Gifford (1844–1931) and Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905)
1888
Oil on canvas (21 1/2 x 41 1/2 in.)
Courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
1995.34.3
Fannie Gifford of New Bedford and later New York was one of Gerry’s students, probably in the mid-1860s. Married to fellow painter and etcher, Robert Swain Gifford, she became noted as a painter and illustrator of birds.
