Sarah Orne Jewett
photographer
James Notman
(Scottish-Canadian, 1849-1932)
Date1870
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions35.3 x 26.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP3n43
eMuseum ID724762
EmbARK ObjectID24288
TMS Source ID8853
Last Updated10/18/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryAuthor Sarah Orne Jewett earned a reputation for her realist portrayal of life in New England through novels and interconnected short stories such as The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). Jewett shared a home in Beacon Hill with the author Annie Adams Fields, widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s publisher James Thomas Fields. Together they hosted some of the brightest minds in the American literary scene, including Willa Cather, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mark Twain.
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1870.
Notman Photo Co.
about 1889
