(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Julia Ward Howe

photographer Henry F. Warren (American, about 1834 - 1895)

Dateabout 1865

Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumAlbumen print

Dimensions16.5 x 10.7 cm (6 1/2 x 4 3/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberP3e24

eMuseum ID729958

EmbARK ObjectID22922

TMS Source ID8288

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryAbolitionist and social reformer Julia Ward Howe was among Gardner’s closest friends. This photograph is on permanent exhibition in the Blue Room alongside Bernard Berenson.

BibliographyNotesElizabeth Reluga, "Julia Ward Howe, BFF and Suffragette," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2 November 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/julia-ward-howe-bff-and-suffragette

MarksNotesInscribed in black ink (verso): Miss Julia Ward Howe
Stamped (verso): WARREN, / Boston and Cambridgeport./ Mass.

ProvenanceNotesProbably a gift from poet, author, and women's suffrage leader, Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) to Isabella Stewart Gardner at an unknown date.