(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

West Cloister

photographer Thomas E. Marr (Canadian-American, 1849 - 1910)

Date1902

Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumGlass plate negative

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.Marr.5386.a

eMuseum ID716755

EmbARK ObjectID26423

TMS Source ID10185

Last Updated11/13/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella worked with the Boston photographic firm Thomas E. Marr & Son, comprised of Thomas and his son Arthur, to document the museum's interiors. You can often see in these photographs Isabella's different iterations of the galleries from the museum's opening in 1903 to her death in 1924.

MarksNotesSigned (lower right): T.E. Marr (c)
Inscribed (lower left): 5386

ProvenanceNotesCommissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Boston photographic firm, Thomas E. Marr and Son in 1902.