Letter to Ralph Curtis from Cadenabbia, Italy
correspondent
Robert Thompson Crawshay
(1853 - 1944)
Date4 May 1897
Place MadeLombardy, Italy, Europe
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.001079
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIn 1892, Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased seven gilded, carved, and painted wood chairs that once belonged to one of Renaissance Italy’s most powerful families—the Borgheses. In this letter, Robert Thompson Crawshay—who owned six chairs from the same set—asks Isabella’s advisor Ralph Curtis if he may purchase Isabella’s chairs in order to reunite the lot. Isabella denied Crawshay’s request and displayed the chairs in the Museum’s Titian Room.
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Last Updated9/13/24
EmbARK ObjectID27802
Source ID11394
Anna Boynton Thompson
27 September 1911
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