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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Early Italian Room
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Early Italian Room

primary (active Boston, 1910-1942)
photographer (American, 1877 - 1954)
Date1926
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumGlass plate negative
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.Marr.24225.a
eMuseum ID717940
EmbARK ObjectID26431
TMS Source ID10193
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 document the museum. This photograph was taken after her death in 1924 and shows Fra Angelico's painted reliquary, the Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin, in the Early Italian Room.
MarksNotesInscribed (lower left): B163
ProvenanceNotesCommissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from the Boston photographic firm, Thomas E. Marr and Son, after Isabella Stewart Gardner's death in 1924.