Plans for the Dutch Room and Short Gallery
author
Isabella Stewart Gardner
(New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Dateabout 1914
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensions33.7 x 44.5 cm (13 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberU21w2.5
eMuseum ID722347
TMS Source ID24218
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb 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.
BibliographyNotesNathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp.103-105, fig. 54.
MarksNotesWatermark: FP
Inscribed in pencil (recto): Fireplace / Second portrait instead of Rembrandt landscape/ Rembrandt landscape on table by window instead of Velazquez/ Dutch Room changes/ high cabinet with silver instead of Romney portrait / [diagram of Dutch Room east wall]
Inscribed in pencil (verso, center): New Short gallery
Inscribed in pencil (verso, around the edge of the paper, clockwise): Textiles / etchings (indecipherable) / Highboy (?) / Zorn ISG / JLG / (indecipherable) / English escritoire [secretary], Sargent Loeffler, viola d'amore
Inscribed in pencil (recto): Fireplace / Second portrait instead of Rembrandt landscape/ Rembrandt landscape on table by window instead of Velazquez/ Dutch Room changes/ high cabinet with silver instead of Romney portrait / [diagram of Dutch Room east wall]
Inscribed in pencil (verso, center): New Short gallery
Inscribed in pencil (verso, around the edge of the paper, clockwise): Textiles / etchings (indecipherable) / Highboy (?) / Zorn ISG / JLG / (indecipherable) / English escritoire [secretary], Sargent Loeffler, viola d'amore
Isabella Stewart Gardner
late 19th century - early 20th century
Isabella Stewart Gardner
20 February 1922
Isabella Stewart Gardner
late 19th century - early 20th century
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