Object details
Object number
v.1.a.4.8
Creator(s)
Title
Travel Album: China, Volume III
Date
1883
Medium
Bound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations
Dimensions
32 x 26 x 4.6 cm (12 5/8 x 10 1/4 x 1 13/16 in.)
Commentary
Isabella 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.
Bibliography
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 180-233, ill.
Stacy Perman. "Diary of a Somebody". Patek Philippe (Vol. 3, no. 12, 2015), pp. 44-49, ill.
Isabella Veeramani and Diana Seave Greenwald, "Isabella in China," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 19 May 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-china
Nancy Berliner, "Listening, Learning, Meditating: Isabella's Journey with Chinese Art," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 7 December 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/listening-learning-meditating-isabellas-journey-chinese-art
Karina H. Corrigan and Stephanie H. Tung (ed.). Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China (Salem, Massachusetts, Peabody Essex Museum, 2022). pp. 134-35, fig. 1-3.
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.56-57, fig. 26.
Stephanie Tung. "China, as Told by Isabella Stewart Gardner" in Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp.135-143 figs. 3, 4.
Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 134, 144-157, 208, plates 31- 37, no. 9.
Gallery
Vatichino
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