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(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Travel Album: Egypt and Sudan
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Travel Album: Egypt and Sudan

primary (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
photographer (Turkish, 1823 - 1886)
photographer (Italian, about 1830 - 1903)
photographer (English, 1822 - 1898)
Date1874-1875
Place MadeEgypt, Middle East
MediumBound album including collected photographs, found papers, original watercolors, and pen and ink writings
Dimensions30.2 x 24 x 4.5 cm (11 7/8 x 9 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberv.1.a.4.2
eMuseum ID725211
EmbARK ObjectID16920
TMS Source ID5246
Last Updated8/10/24
Description125 pages
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner was an avid traveler who chronicled her journeys in twenty-eight photographic albums between 1867 and 1896. This scrapbook reveals her discovery of historic landscapes and cultural traditions along the Nile River in Egypt. Gardner took great care in designing the pages of her albums, and within them we can find traces of her earliest inspirations in creating her museum. The watercolor sketch of a mosque prefigures the crenellations lining her museum’s courtyard walls.
BibliographyNotesJoyce L. Haynes. "The Sacred Beetle." Fenway Court (1973), pp. 30-34, nos. 1-2, ill. 34.
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Stacy Perman. "Diary of a Somebody". Patek Philippe (Vol. 3, no. 12, 2015), pp. 44-49, ill.
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