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(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
"Mrs. Jack's Latest Lion"
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2023 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

"Mrs. Jack's Latest Lion"

primary (active Boston, 1831 - 1956)
subject (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Date31 January 1897
MediumPrinted ink on newspaper
Dimensions29.2 x 22.8 cm (11 1/2 x 9 in.)
ClassificationsArchival Material
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.010139
eMuseum ID722776
TMS Source ID27937
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web Commentary
This clipping from an 1897 edition of the Boston Post recounts and illustrates an event in which Isabella Stewart Gardner walked a toothless lion named Rex around the halls of Boston’s zoo. Gardner loved to see her name in print—she collected numerous newspaper clippings covering her activities.

BibliographyNotesDiana Seave Greenwald, "Isabella Stewart Gardner was a Dog Person," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 29 September 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-stewart-gardner-dog-person
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2022), pp. 12-15, fig. 3.
ProvenanceNotesProbably clipped from the newspaper by Isabella Stewart Gardner on 31 January 1897.