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Travel Album: China and Japan, Volume II

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

Date1883

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

Dimensions31.8 x 26.2 x 4.6 cm (12 1/2 x 10 5/16 x 1 13/16 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberv.1.a.4.7

eMuseum ID727876

EmbARK ObjectID17285

TMS Source ID5577

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept records of her worldwide travels in the form of albums. In 1883, Isabella and Jack Gardner were among a select group of wealthy global travelers who were able to take advantage of relaxed political restrictions and improved travel infrastructure early in the modern history of tourism to Japan. The tourism market for photography was already well-established and Isabella purchased nearly two hundred individual photographs from commercial photography studios and other vendors during her visit. She arranged them in this album to chronicle places she visited.

BibliographyNotesAlan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 152-191, 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
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.45-47, fig 19.
David Odo. "Deceptive Intimacy: Isabella Stewart Gardner's 1883 Japan Travel Albums" 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.161-177, figs. 5, 10.

Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 160, 186-189, 208, plates 41-42, no. 8.
David Odo, "Deceptive Intimacy: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s 1883 Japan Travel Albums," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 21 March 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/deceptive-intimacy-isabella-stewart-gardners-1883-japan-travel-albums

MarksNotesInscribed in ink in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand on the second page: I.S. Gardner - / 1883. August 8. / Japan - / Vol. II