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Photograph Album

author Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)

Date1892

Place MadeUnited States, North America

MediumBound album: paper; photographs

Dimensions25.6 x 66.5 cm (10 1/16 x 26 3/16 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberv.1.b.4.10

eMuseum ID726734

EmbARK ObjectID24697

TMS Source ID9031

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner was an avid shutterbug, taking snapshots of her friends, family, and activities for display in numerous albums. This album page shows two photographs taken in 1892, when Henry James stayed with Isabella and Jack Gardner at the Palazzo Barbaro, the palace they rented on Venice’s Grand Canal. Because the Gardners had a number of other visitors during James’s stay, they placed his bed in the library and draped it in mosquito netting—an arrangement that delighted and amused him. He called it a “paradise of a bedroom—if you keep your stockings together.”

BibliographyNotesNathaniel Silver (ed.), Titian's Rape of Europa (Boston, 2021), pp. 13, fig. 4.