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Isabella Stewart Gardner in Alva Garden, Seville, Spain

primary John Lowell Gardner Jr. (Boston, 1837 - 1898, Boston)

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

Date20 April 1888

Place MadeSeville, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

MediumAlbumen print

Dimensions15 x 20 cm (5 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.008028

eMuseum ID723893

EmbARK ObjectID33799

TMS Source ID17279

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

Madeleine Haddon. "'Spain Says It All' Isabella Stewart Gardner's 1888 Travel Albums of Spain" in Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 64, fig. 6.

MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (recto, top): ISG in Alva Garden, Seville, Apr. 20 1888 from / Travel Book / C303 X11-1943

ProvenanceNotes

Taken by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband John L. Gardner Jr. in Seville, Spain in 1888.

Enclosed in Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Album: Spain, Volume II, 1888. (v.1.a.4.16)