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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Famous Portraits of the Italian Renaissance
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Famous Portraits of the Italian Renaissance

author (1866 - 1932, Paris)
subject (founded Paris, 1793)
printer (active Évreux, early 20th century)
publisher (French, established 1826)
Date1913
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions21.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 1/8 x 1 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberS.G.S.1.31
eMuseum ID718459
EmbARK ObjectID20513
TMS Source ID7137
Last Updated8/9/24
Descriptionxi, 250 pages : illus.; 22 cm.
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.
MarksNotesBlue sticker (inside front cover, top left): Brentano's / Booksellers & Stationers / New York
Signed in black ink (inside front cover): Isabella Stewart Gardner / July 1914- / from Theodore F. Dwight.
Inscribed in pencil (on front flyleaf, top left): 1 10 net / simi 
ProvenanceNotesPossibly purchased by American librarian and autograph collector Theodore F. Dwight (1846-1917) at Brentano's Booksellers in New York, 1913-1914.
Gift from Theodore F. Dwight to Isabella Stewart Gardner in July 1914.