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Villa Crawford

photographer F. Marion Crawford (Bagni di Lucca, Italy, 1854 - 1909, Sorrento, Italy)

Date1907

Place MadeSorrento, Campania, Italy, Europe

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions19.2 x 24.3 cm (7 9/16 x 9 9/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.006482

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner and the novelist F. Marion Crawford bonded over a love of the Italian poet Dante. Their close relationship inspired rumors of an affair. It is impossible to know whether or not the two had a physical affair, but the surviving traces of their mutual admiration have romantic undertones.The perceived attachment between Isabella and Frank likely precipitated the young author's abrupt departure from Boston in the spring of 1883. Crawford spent the rest of his life in Sorrento, where he was a prolific writer and a married father of four children. Isabella and Crawford stayed in touch, and he shared this photograph of his Italian home, Villa Crawford, with her.

Id721637

Last Updated8/9/24

Other NumberU3s389

EmbARK ObjectID32328

Source ID15897