(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Inauguration of President Grover Cleveland

photographer John Fillis Jarvis (English, 1849 - 1931)

Date4 March 1885

Place MadeWashington, District of Columbia, United States, North America

MediumAlbumen print on card

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.009080

eMuseum ID723576

EmbARK ObjectID34764

TMS Source ID18220

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryThis photograph is a memento of the inauguration of President Grover Cleveland in 1885. Isabella and her husband Jack attended the festivities in Washington, DC. After the inauguration, Isabella continued to follow the career of President Cleveland and the First Lady, Frances Folsom Cleveland, whom she met on at least one occasion. She kept this photograph in a box near her desk in the Macknight Room.

BibliographyNotes

Elizabeth Reluga, "Inauguration Day 1885," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 19 January 2021, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/inauguration-day-1885

MarksNotesPrinted (lower): J.F. Jarvis, Publisher, Inauguration of President Cleveland. / March 4th, 1885 Copyright 1885 by J.F. Jarvis / 135 Penn. Ave., Washington, D.C.
Inscribed in ink (upper): For / Mrs. Gardner / with the compliments of H.L. Nelson
Inscribed in pencil (bottom right): removed from Red Lacquer Box, Macknight Room

ProvenanceNotesGift from journalist and author Henry Loomis Nelson (1846-1908) to Isabella Stewart Gardner after the inauguration of President Grover Cleveland in Washington DC on 4 March 1885.