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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Venice
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Venice

correspondent (Château Saint-Leonard, France, 1856 - 1935, Florence)
Date21 September 1897
Place MadeEngland, Europe
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions18 x 22 cm (7 1/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.004357
eMuseum ID724415
Other NumberU27e417
Other NumberU27ePageVio.007
EmbARK ObjectID24295
TMS Source ID8858
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryFeminist author Violet Paget published under the pseudonym Vernon Lee and featured prominently in Isabella Stewart Gardner’s social circles in Italy. This letter to Gardner discusses the status of James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room, a dining room originally installed in a wealthy collector’s home in London and now displayed at the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC. Gardner herself briefly considered purchasing the Peacock Room and donating it for installation in the newly built Boston Public Library in Copley Square.