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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Ralph Waldo Emerson

primary
subject (Boston, 1803 - 1882, Concord, Massachusetts)
Date1854
Place MadeMassachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions23.4 x 14.5 cm (9 3/16 x 5 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.006473
eMuseum ID722015
EmbARK ObjectID32319
Other NumberU3n187
TMS Source ID15888
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesRalph Waldo Emerson, Essays (Boston and New York, 1865), frontispiece, ill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson (New York, 1929), frontispiece, ill.
MarksNotesDated with printed autograph (below image): 1854 / R. Waldo Emerson / 1803-1903
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
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Unknown
1918-1921
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Ralph Waldo Emerson
late 19th century - early 20th century
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Samuel Worcester Rowse
about 1878
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Samuel Worcester Rowse
1878
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Unknown
early 20th century
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Francois Antoine Vizzavona
1918-1922
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Ralph Wormeley Curtis
early 20th century
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Otto Wegener
3 November 1897
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Fratelli Vianelli
about 1884