Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Guest Book, Volume IV, 2 September 1897- 31 May 1899
Bound album: photographs, ink, paper, closed: 8 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. (20.6 x 27 cm)
Isabella Stewart Gardner - Guest Book, Volume IV, 2 September 1897- 31 May 1899
Object details
Object number
v.1.b.4.15
Creator(s)
- Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston) - primary
- Marcus Ward And Company (active Belfast, Ireland, 1833 - 1899) - manufacturer
Title
Guest Book, Volume IV
Date
2 September 1897- 31 May 1899
Medium
Bound album: photographs, ink, paper
Dimensions
closed: 8 1/8 x 10 5/8 in. (20.6 x 27 cm)
Additional Dimensions
Open: 21 7/16 x 8 1/8 x 1 1/4 in. (54.5 x 20.6 x 3.2 cm)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Signers are Maria Elizabeth Abbott, Samuel Appleton Browne Abbott, Antoinette Adamowska, Timothee Adamowski, Joseph Adamowski, Gigi Agostini, Charles Hamilton Aide, Anna (Palfrey) Allan, Bryce J. Allan, Grace Amory, Andreas Martin Andersen, Arthur Olaf Andersen, Helen K. (Mixter) Appleton, Randolph M. Appleton, William Wilberforce Baldwin, Francis Bartten, Elizabeth S. Beal, Bernard Berenson, William Sturgis Bigelow, Alex Blaess, Horatio F. Brown, Herbert Whieldon Cotton Browne, George DeForest Brush, Lawrence Smith Butler, Clara Butt, Theodore Byard, Francis H. B. Byrne, George Whitefield Chadwick, Ida May Chadwick, Ethel Chamberlain, Joseph Chamberlain, Mary Crowninshield (Endicott) Chamberlain, Louise Clarl, Dominic Colnaghi, Francesca Colnaghi, Joanna Colnaghi, N. H/. Contarini, Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Archibald Cary Coolidge, Monsignor di Croy, Ariana Randolf (Wormeley) Curtis, Clara Curtis, T. F. Cushing, Howard Gardiner Cushing, Grafton Dulany Cushing, Anita de Forest, Lt. General William de Horsey, Bertha Dean, Charles Derenburg, Josephine Dexter, Richard Cowill Dixey, Ellen (Sturgis) Dixey, Susan (Preston) Draper, William Franklin Draper, Ellis Loring Dresel, Lawrence Duncan, G. Duncan, Sally P. Dwight, Theodore F. Dwight, Sallie H. Elliot, Angelo Emo, William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr. Lydia E. Eustis, George Eustis, Marie C. Eustis, Sally Fairchild, Elise Burnett Fay, Ethel A. Forbes, Evelyn Forbes, John Ford, William Amory Gardner, John Lowell Gardner (2nd), Constance Gardner, George Augustus Gardner, Esther Gardner, George Peabody Gardner, Walter Gay, Paulo Gericke, Wilhelm Gericke, Charles Hammond Gibson, Jr., Wallace Goodrich, Carlo Guicciandini, Robert Hargous, Josephine Hartman, Malcolm Graeme Haughton, Jr., Percy D. Haughton, Alison Turnbull Lawrence Haughton, Lawrence Haughton, Parkman B. Haven, Kenneth Horton, Julia Howe, Henry McKean Ingersoll, Edward Jackson, Clayton Johns, Franz Kneisel, Pierre la Rose, Benjamin Johnson Lang, Frances Morse (Burrage) Lang, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Rosamund Lang, Gaillard Thomas Lapsley, Lena Little, Charles Martin Loeffler, Eames MacVeagh, Emily MacVeagh, George J. Maquay, Fanny P. Mason, W. Powell Mason, Marion S. Mason, Marian S. McKean, Olive Mead, Cuthbert Medd, Henry Wise Miller, W. Mitchell-Thomson, George Howard Monks, Olga Eliza (Gardner) Monks, George Gardner Monks, Augustus Montalba, Ellen Montalba, Edward O. Moore, Louisa (Palfrey) Norman, Violet Paget, Francesca Papafava, Elizabeth (Ward) Perkins, Charles Bruen Perkins, Emily Russell Pierson, John Briggs Potter, Fanny Lithglow (Payson) Prince, Morton Prince, George W. Proctor, Julia Ward Richards, William King Richardson, Arthur J. Richmond, Rosita Richmond, Silvio Risegari, Helen C. Robbins, Herbert D. Robbins, Otto Roth, Lucy E. Russel, S. J. Russel, Charles E. Sampson, George Santayana, Hetty Appleton Sargent, Baron Walther H. Schwabach, Alice Barnard Seabury, Eleonora Randolph Sears, George B. Shattuck, Amalia S. Shattuck, Eliza B. Skinner, Francis Skinner, Francis Hopkinson Smith, Joseph Lindon Smith, Emma Greenleaf Smith, Charles Sprague, Mary B. Sprague, Thomas Russell Sullivan, Edmund C. Tarbell, Sister Theresa (Sisters of Saint Margaret), Douglas H. Thomas, Jr., Paul Thorndike, Rachel Ewing Thorndike, Francesco Trombini, Emily W. Tyson, Annie (Davis) Valpy, Laura Wagniere, George Cabot Ward, Fiske Warren, Gretchen H. (Osgood) Warren, Eleanora Whiting, and Clara (Bowdoin) Winthrop.
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
Christina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), pp. 40-41, 58, no. 9.Diana Seave Greenwald, "Isabella Stewart Gardner was a Dog Person," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 29 September 2020, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-stewart-gardner-dog-personÂ
Julia Row Harbutt, "From Isabella's Music Room to Symphony Hall: Composer Margaret Ruthven Lang," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 5 September 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabellas-music-room-symphony-hall-composer-margaret-ruthven-lang
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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.