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Travel Album: Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France, Volume III

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

artist Joseph Lindon Smith (Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1863 - 1950, Dublin, New Hampshire)

Date1892

Place MadeEurope

MediumBound album including collected photographs, found papers, original watercolors, and pen and ink annotations

Dimensions32 x 20 x 4.5 cm (12 5/8 x 7 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberv.1.b.4.3

eMuseum ID726480

EmbARK ObjectID25065

TMS Source ID9172

Last Updated8/9/24

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.

BibliographyNotesNathaniel Silver "Isabella Stewart Gardner, Simone Martini, and Gold-Ground Paintings in America" in Nathaniel Silver (ed.). Simone Martini in Orvieto. Exh. cat. (Boston, MA: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2022) p. 14, ill. 2.
Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), p. 211, no. 22.

MarksNotesEmbossed in gold on the front cover at center: I.S.G.
Inscribed in ink in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand on the third page: Isabella S. Gardner - / Vol. III / 1892.