(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

(c) 2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Postcard 'Mrs. Jack Gardner's Venetian Palace'

correspondent Dodge MacKnight (American, 1860 - 1950)

printer Detroit Photographic Co. (active Detroit, 1897 - 1924)

Date31 December 1911

Place MadeEast Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumChromolithograph; Ink on paper

ClassificationsManuscripts

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.003064

eMuseum ID724822

EmbARK ObjectID24528

Other NumberP27e61

TMS Source ID8981

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryMacknight Room is home to a great number of watercolor paintings by its namesake: Dodge Macknight. Macknight good-naturedly badgered Isabella into purchasing his paintings and in 1912 sent her a doctored postcard of the exterior of her museum with the words “Buy Macknight’s Pictures” emblazoned across the circular wall around the Monk’s Garden. Gardner obliged, and the gallery is home to nearly a dozen works by his hand, including A Road in Winter, Cape Cod and Towering Castles, Grand Canyon.

MarksNotesTranscription: Happy New Year, chère / amie, and will you please / let me use your wall / in the manner indicated on / the other side? I am / willing to pay, of course - / We all send you best / wishes - / DM / 11.59 1/2 p.m. Dec 31, 1911
Addressed to: Mrs. Isabella S. Gardner / Fenway Court / Back Bay / Boston Mass
Postmarked: East Sandwich, Mass. January 1 AM 1912