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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Copy of the Poem "A View of Rome with Violets in the Foreground"
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Copy of the Poem "A View of Rome with Violets in the Foreground"

poet (Bristol, 1840 - 1893, Rome)
Date17 May 1884
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.007371
eMuseum ID721713
Other NumberU27e750
EmbARK ObjectID33171
TMS Source ID16704
Last Updated8/9/24
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.
BibliographyNotes"A View of Rome with Violets in the Foreground" (26 December 1883), in Letters and Papers of John Addington Symonds, ed. Horatio F. Brown (London: John Murray, 1923), p. 269.
MarksNotesInscribed in ink in John Addington Symonds' hand (bottom): To Mrs. Curtis (of Palazzo Barbaro, Venezia) thanks / for a card sent from Rome which suggested these / lines. / Copied at Venice May 17 1884 for Mrs. Gardner.
ProvenanceNotesProbably a gift of English writer John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1884.