(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

West Cloister showing the Farnese Sarcophagus

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

Date1903

Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumGlass plate negative

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.Marr.7595.a

eMuseum ID717981

EmbARK ObjectID26428

TMS Source ID10190

Last Updated10/26/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella worked with the Boston photographic firm Thomas E. Marr & Son, comprised of Thomas and his son Arthur, to comprehensively document the museum's interiors. Here the Farnese Sarcophagus (S12e3) sits in the West Cloister.

BibliographyNotes

Holly Salmon, Jessica Chloros, and Ellen Promise, "Secrets of the Farnese Sarcophagus," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 18 May 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/secrets-farnese-sarcophagus

ProvenanceNotesCommissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Boston photographic firm, Thomas E. Marr and Son in 1903.