Ellen Terry
photographer
Napoleon Sarony
(Quebec, 1821 - 1896, New York)
Datelate 19th century
Place MadeNew York City, New York, United States, North America
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions16.4 x 10.8 cm (6 7/16 x 4 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP27w79
eMuseum ID717960
Previous NumberP27w80
EmbARK ObjectID23214
Other NumberARC.006309_0001-0002
TMS Source ID8349
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner loved music and theater and was a patron of the performing arts. She befriended musicians and actors and memorialized them in the fifteen glass-topped cases she installed in her museum's galleries. Isabella hosted Shakespearean actor Ellen Terry at Fenway Court and displayed this photograph in the Modern Actors Case in the Long Gallery.
BibliographyNotesNathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp.118-121, fig. 64.
MarksNotesPrinted in red ink (recto, bottom): Sarony 37 Union Sqr., N. Y.
Stamped in black ink (recto, lower corner of image): A. H. Wilson, Lon.
Inscribed in pencil (verso): Ellen Terry
Stamped in blue (verso) J. MACMICHAEL / Court Stationer / By Appointment / 42, South Audley St, W.
Stamped in black ink (recto, lower corner of image): A. H. Wilson, Lon.
Inscribed in pencil (verso): Ellen Terry
Stamped in blue (verso) J. MACMICHAEL / Court Stationer / By Appointment / 42, South Audley St, W.
ProvenanceNotesPossibly a gift from the actress Ellen Terry (1847-1928) to Isabella Stewart Gardner in the late 19th century.
