(c) 2022 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner at a Party at Red Roof, Gloucester, Massachusetts

primary A. Piatt Andrew (La Porte, Indiana, 1873 - 1936, Gloucester, Massachusetts)

subject Edgar Carter Rust (American, 1882 - 1963)

subject Henry Davis Sleeper (Boston, 1878 - 1934, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

subject Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)

subject Ernst F. Hanfstaengl (German, 1887 - 1875)

subject Dorothy Whitney Straight (Washington, D.C., 1877 - 1968, Dartington Hall)

subject Weymer Jay Mills (American, 1880 - 1938)

Date17 April 1909 - 18 April 1909

Place MadeGloucester, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions8 x 10.2 cm (3 1/8 x 4 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.007465

eMuseum ID725334

EmbARK ObjectID33262

TMS Source ID16794

Last Updated11/23/24

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.

BibliographyNotesAurora Daniel, "Henry Davis Sleeper and a Glass Mosaic," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 8 June 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/henry-davis-sleeper-and-glass-mosaic
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp.114-115, fig. 60.

MarksNotesMarked in pencil (top left): F4 / #36 / 1.00 / 20 - 1.20 / 90 / 90 / 140 / 94% / 833
Inscribed in pencil (lower): Edgar Rust, H. Sleeper, ISG, Putzi, Hanfstaengl, / Dorthy Whitney Straight, Dick Hall, Mills, / Apr. 17 - 18, 1909
Marked in pencil (upper right): #35
Marked in pencil (center): 833

ProvenanceNotesProbably a gift from economist and politician A. Piatt Andrew to Isabella Stewart Gardner, about 1909.