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Travel Album: India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt, Volume VI

primary Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)

photographer Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823 - 1886)

Date1884

Place MadeIndia, South Asia

MediumBound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations

Dimensions30.5 x 36 x 4 cm (12 x 14 3/16 x 1 9/16 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberv.1.a.4.11

eMuseum ID727893

EmbARK ObjectID17282

TMS Source ID5574

Last Updated10/8/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept thorough records of her travels in the form of travel albums. This album features her journeys in India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt in 1884. Composed primarily of professional and amateur commercial photographs collected at various sites, the album reveals intimate glimpses of Isabella’s artistic tastes as well her status as an American following in colonial footsteps.

BibliographyNotesAlan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 344-378, ill.
Pujan Gandhi. "Isabella Stewart Gardner's travel Albums through India" in Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp.95-107 figs. 4, 12.
Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 28, 31, 94, 124-131, 209, figs. 7, 11, plates 27-30, no. 12.
Pujan Gandhi, "Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travels in India," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 20 February 2024, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-stewart-gardners-travels-india