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(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Majordomo Uniform Design for Teobaldo "Bolgi" Travi
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Majordomo Uniform Design for Teobaldo "Bolgi" Travi

artist (Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1863 - 1950, Dublin, New Hampshire)
Date1901-1903
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumGraphite, ink, and watercolor on paper
Dimensions22.5 x 13 cm (8 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.100007
eMuseum ID719558
EmbARK ObjectID23160
Other NumberARC.007383_0002
Other NumberARC.P.005.a
Other NumberARC.100007.1
TMS Source ID8318
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryJoseph Lindon Smith was an artist and close friend of Gardner’s. His fanciful design for her museum’s majordomo reflects their shared love of theatre and costuming.
BibliographyNotes
Diana Seave Greenwald, "Bolgi: The Caretaker and Protector of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 15 April 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/bolgi-first-caretaker

ProvenanceNotesCommissioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the painter Joseph Lindon Smith (1863-1950), about 1902.