(c) 2009 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

(c) 2022 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Travel Album: Spain, Volume I

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

Date1888

Place MadeSpain, Europe

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

Dimensions35.6 x 30.5 x 3.8 cm (14 x 12 x 1 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberv.1.a.4.15

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept records of her worldwide travels in the form of albums. In 1888, Isabella and Jack Gardner spent three months traveling throughout the Iberian Pennisula in Spain and Portugal. This album focuses primarily on her time in Madrid, with over fifty pages of photographs of her favorite works from Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado and Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando by artists such as Velázquez, Murillo, Titian, and Goya. Her impressions of the country captured within her albums shaped the formation of her art collection and the very walls of her museum with the construction in 1914 of the Spanish Cloister to house John Singer Sargent’s El Jaleo—the painterly embodiment of Sargent’s own trip to Spain.

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Last Updated8/9/24

EmbARK ObjectID17500

Source ID5766