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(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Travel Album: China, Volume III
(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Travel Album: China, Volume III

primary (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
photographer (English, 1841 - 1898)
photographer (English, 1832 - 1892)
Date1883
Place MadeChina, East Asia
MediumBound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations
Dimensions32 x 26 x 4.6 cm (12 5/8 x 10 1/4 x 1 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberv.1.a.4.8
eMuseum ID727858
EmbARK ObjectID17284
TMS Source ID5576
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on view
Web 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.
BibliographyNotesAlan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 180-233, ill.
Stacy Perman. "Diary of a Somebody". Patek Philippe (Vol. 3, no. 12, 2015), pp. 44-49, ill.
Isabella Veeramani and Diana Seave Greenwald, "Isabella in China," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 19 May 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-china
Nancy Berliner, "Listening, Learning, Meditating: Isabella's Journey with Chinese Art," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 7 December 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/listening-learning-meditating-isabellas-journey-chinese-art 
Karina H. Corrigan and Stephanie H. Tung (ed.). Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China (Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, 2022). pp. 134-35, fig. 1-3.
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.56-57, fig. 26.
Stephanie Tung. "China, as Told by Isabella Stewart Gardner" 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.135-143 figs. 3, 4.  
Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 134, 144-157, 208, plates 31- 37, no. 9.