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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner in the Greenhouse at Green Hill, Brookline, Massachusetts
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner in the Greenhouse at Green Hill, Brookline, Massachusetts

primary (active Boston, 1910-1942)
photographer (Canadian-American, 1849 - 1910)
photographer (American, 1877 - 1954)
subject (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Date1894-1919
Place MadeBrookline, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions18.6 x 24 cm (7 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.010046
eMuseum ID724841
Other NumberARC.008033
TMS Source ID27798
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner was an avid horticulturalist and maintained extensive gardens at her residence in Brookline, Massachusetts called Green Hill.  Her husband Jack inherited Green Hill from his parents in 1884, and Isabella transformed the landscape of 40 acres with gardens reflecting her travels.  In this photograph, Isabella is in one of the property’s greenhouses where she and the estate’s Head Gardener, Charles Montague Atkinson, grew plants like the azaleas seen here.
BibliographyNotesNathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp. 4, 62-63, fig. 32.
MarksNotesNumbered (recto, lower left): 2245
Inscribed in pencil (verso, middle): 2245
Inscribed in pencil (verso, upper left): Green Hill
ProvenanceNotesProbably commissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the photographic firm Thomas E. Marr and Son between 1894 and 1919.