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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
John Lowell Gardner III
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John Lowell Gardner III

primary (Grafton, Massachusetts, 1822 - 1891, Boston, Massachusetts)
subject (American, 1863 - 1865)
Date1864-1865
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumAlbumen print on card
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC1986.1.4
eMuseum ID724649
EmbARK ObjectID33218
Previous NumberARC.007420
TMS Source ID16750
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.
BibliographyNotesDiana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), p20, fig. 3.
 Diana Seave Greenwald,"Isabella and the Complexities of Mother's Day," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2 May 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-and-complexities-mothers-day.
MarksNotesPrinted (verso): Whipple / 96 Washington St, / Boston. / These Negatives are preserved for years with great / care. Photographs can be made from them...

ProvenanceNotesProbably commissioned by Isabella and Jack Gardner from John Adams Whipple in 1864-65.
Probably a gift from Isabella and Jack Gardner to domestic worker, Ella T. Lavin (1846-1918).
Purchased by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from Mary Bell, niece of Ella T. Lavin, in 1986.