Adelia Smith Stewart
photographer
Unknown
subject
Adelia Smith Stewart
(American, 1814 - 1886)
Date1855-1860
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumHand-colored albumen print
Dimensions16 x 20 cm (6 5/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP33e18
eMuseum ID716952
EmbARK ObjectID19842
TMS Source ID6948
Last Updated8/14/24
Status
Not on viewWeb 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.
BibliographyNotesNathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.24-27, fig. 8.
Tiffany York, "Those Who Come Before Us Help Make Us Who We Art," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1 February 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/those-who-come-us-help-make-us-who-we-are
Tiffany York, "Those Who Come Before Us Help Make Us Who We Art," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1 February 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/those-who-come-us-help-make-us-who-we-are
MarksNotesStuck in the frame is a piece of paper with the following in Mrs. Gardner's handwriting: "Adelia Stewart died in New York January 6th 1886." [I&N, Vatichino, p. 48]
ProvenanceNotesProbably inherited by Isabella Stewart Gardner from her father David Stewart (1810-1891) in 1891.
