Object details

Object number

v.1.b.4.12

Creator(s)

• Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston) - compiler
• Marcus Ward And Company (active Belfast, Ireland, 1833 - 1899) - manufacturer
• Holker Abbott (active Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts,1858 - 1930) - signer
• T. Adamowski (Warsaw, 1858 - 1943, Boston) - signer
• Rodolphe L. Agassiz (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1871 - 1933, Unknown) - signer
• Alexander Agassiz (Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1835 - 1910, at sea aboard the RMS Adriatic) - signer
• Luigi Agostini (active Venice, late 19th century) - signer
• Lilian Woodman Aldrich (Bangor, Maine, 1841 - 1927, Boston, Massachusetts) - signer
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1836 - 1907, Boston) - signer
• Anna Allan (Massachusetts, 1869 - 1942, Outremont, Québec) - signer
• Randolph M. Appleton (New York, 1862 - 1940, Ipswich) - signer
• Helen K. Appleton (Massachusetts, 1864 - 1939) - signer
• Octavie Apthorp (active Boston, about 1856 - about 1934) - signer
• Scipione N. Balomara - signer
• Ellen Shaw Barlow (West Roxbury, 1845 - 1936, Boston) - signer
• Charles Tracy Barney - signer
• Lilly Barney - signer
• Francis Bartten (American, active late 19th century) - signer
• Marian Mason Bell (1871 - 1953, Westchester County, New York) - signer
• Edouard Duplessis Beylard - signer
• Alice Keep Blair - signer
• Watson Franklin Blair - signer
• Thérèse De Solms Blanc (Seine-Port, 1840 - 1907) - signer
• Guido Boggiani (Omegna, Italy, 1861 - 1902, Paraguay) - signer
• Minnie Bourget (died 1932, Paris) - signer
• Paul Bourget (Amiens, France, 1852 - 1935, Paris) - signer
• May Williamson Bowler - signer
• Robert Pendleton Bowler - signer
• Elizabeth C. Bradford - signer
• I.H. Bradford (American, active late 19th century) - signer
• Marianne Brimmer (American, 1827-1906) - signer
• Martin Brimmer (Boston, 1829 - 1896, Boston) - signer
• Ada Maud Broadwood - signer
• Edith Blake Brown (Boston, 1869 - 1907) - signer
• Louise Brown - signer
• Walter Francis Brown - signer
• Henry Denison Burnham - signer
• Johanna Burnham (New York, 1864 - 1957, Cambridge, Massachusetts) - signer
• Ferruccio Busoni (Empoli, 1866 - 1924, Berlin) - signer
• Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler Chapman (1866 - 1937) - signer
• John Jay Chapman (New York, 1862 - 1933, Poughkeepsie, New York) - signer
• Minna Chapman (Milan, 1861 - 1897, New York) - signer
• Alfred Quinton Collins (1855 - 1903, Cambridge, Massachusetts) - signer
• Mary H. Collins (active Boston, 19th century) - signer
• Archibald Cary Coolidge (Boston, 1866 - 1928, Boston) - signer
• Julian Lowell Coolidge (Brookline, Massachusetts, 1873 - 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts) - signer
• Katharine Coolidge (Boston, 1858 - 1900, Boston) - signer
• Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (Boston, 1831 - 1920, Boston) - signer
• Hans Coudenhove (Vienna, 1863 - 1925, Zomba) - signer
• F. Marion Crawford (Bagni di Lucca, Italy, 1854 - 1909, Sorrento, Italy) - signer
• Lisa Curtis (Bristol, Rhode Island, 1871 - 1933, Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France) - signer
• Grafton Dulany Cushing (1864 - 1939) - signer
• Howard Gardiner Cushing (Boston, 1869 - 1916, New York) - signer
• Henry Rogers Dalton Jr. (Boston, 1866 - 1943, Boston) - signer
• Margaret Deland (Pittsburgh, 1857 - 1945, Boston) - signer
• Josephine Dexter (1848 - 1937) - signer
• Ellen Dixey (1849 - 1924) - signer
• Richard Dixey (Marblehead, 1844 - 1915, Lenox) - signer
• G. Duncan (American, active late 19th century) - signer
• Laura Duncan - signer
• Julia Duplessis Beylard - signer
• Theodore F. Dwight (Auburn, New York, 1846 - 1917, Boston) - signer
• Emma Eames (Shanghai, 1865 - 1952, New York City) - signer
• Abby Louise Eddy (active Manchester by the Sea, 1856 - 1909) - signer
• Spencer F. Eddy (Chicago, 1873 - 1939, New York City) - signer
• Nellie Cora Eldredge (Harwich, Massachusetts, 1863 - 1954, Harwich, Massachusetts) - signer
• Célestine Eustis (Paris, about 1836 - 1921, Aiken, South Carolina) - signer
• George P. Eustis (Paris, 1865 - 1936, Nogales, Arizona) - signer
• James Biddle Eustis Jr. - signer
• William Corcoran Eustis (Paris, 1862 - 1921, New York City) - signer
• Sally Fairchild (1869 - 1960) - signer
• Jeanne Faure (active New Orleans, late 19th century) - signer
• Jessie Fellows - signer
• Elizabeth Fenollosa (Salem, 1853 - 1920, Salem) - signer
• Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (Salem, Massachusetts, 1853 - 1908, London) - signer
• Delia Macomber Field (Buffalo, 1853 - 1937, Beverly) - signer
• Annie Fields (Boston, 1834 - 1915) - signer
• Eleanor Flagg (Paris, 1864 - 1965, Boston) - signer
• Arthur Williams Foote (Salem, 1853 - 1937, Boston) - signer
• Katherine Foote (Massachusetts, 1881 - 1970) - signer
• Filip Forsteri (active late 19th century) - signer
• Frederick Herman Gade (near Christiana, Denmark, 1871 - 1943, Paris) - signer
• Augustus Peabody Gardner (Boston, 1865 - 1918) - signer
• Constance Gardner (1872 - 1948) - signer
• Esther Burnett Gardner (Southborough, 1859 - 1954, Boston) - signer
• George A. Gardner - signer
• George Peabody Gardner (Boston, 1855 - 1939) - signer
• John Lowell Gardner Jr. (Boston, 1837 - 1898, Boston) - signer
• William Amory Gardner (Boston, 1863 - 1930, Groton, Massachusetts) - signer
• Heinrich Gebhard (Sobernheim, Germany, 1878 - 1963, Arlington, New Jersey) - signer
• Anna Lyman Gray (Boston, 1853 - 1932, Boston) - signer
• John Chipman Gray (Brighton, Massachusetts, 1839 - 1915, Boston) - signer
• Roland Gray (1874 - 1957) - signer
• Georgina Hadden (active Hempstead, New York, late 19th century) - signer
• Louis Haight (American, active late 19th century) - signer
• Robert L. Hargous (died 1905) - signer
• Alison T. L. Haughton (active late 19th century) - signer
• Lawrence Haughton (American, 1864 - 1920) - signer
• Malcolm Graeme Haughton (Staten Island, New York, 1866 - 1929, Beverly) - signer
• Morton Jackson Henry (Philadelphia, 1869 - 1945, Unknown) - signer
• Corina Higginson (Boston, 1873 - 1962) - signer
• Francis Lee Higginson (Boston, 1841 - 1925, Beverly, Massachusetts) - signer
• Julia Higginson - signer
• Louise Eustis Hitchcock (active early 20th century) - signer
• Marie Clarisse Eustis Hofmann (New Orleans, 1866 - 1956, Aiken, South Carolina) - signer
• Lionel Holland (1865 - 1936) - signer
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1809 - 1894, Boston) - signer
• Edward William Hooper (1831 - 1901) - signer
• Marion Hopkinson Smith (American, active late 19th century) - signer
• Alice Greenwood Howe (1835 - 1924, Boston) - signer
• George Howe (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1886 - 1955) - signer
• Joseph A. Iasigi (Massachusetts, 1848 - 1917, Massachusetts) - signer
• Marie Homer Iasigi (active Boston, 1861 - 1946) - signer
• Henry McKean Ingersoll (Pennsylvania, 1862 - 1943) - signer
• Alice James (1848 - 1892) - signer
• William James (New York, 1842 - 1910, Tamworth, New Hampshire) - signer
• Sarah Orne Jewett (South Berwick, Maine, 1849 - 1909, South Berwick, Maine) - signer
• Frank Johns (active Philadelphia, late 19th century) - signer
• Clayton Johns (New Castle, Delaware, 1857 - 1932, Boston) - signer
• Hamilton Kuhn (Philadelphia, 1866 - 1902, Bahamas) - signer
• Grace Morris Kuhn (Boston, 1840 - 1908, Lenox, Massachusetts) - signer
• B. J. Lang (Salem, Massachusetts, 1837 - 1909, Boston) - signer
• Frances Morse Lang (1839 - 1934, Cambridge) - signer
• Gaillard Thomas Lapsley (New York, 1871 - 1949, New York) - signer
• Raphaël Georges Lévy - signer
• Lena Little (New Orleans, 1856 - 1920, New Orleans) - signer
• Charles Martin Loeffler (Berlin, 1861 - 1935, Medfield, Massachusetts) - signer
• Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow, Jr. (Portland, Maine, 1854 - 1934, Portland, Maine) - signer
• Nicholas Longworth (Cincinnati, 1869 - 1931, Aiken, South Carolina) - signer
• Anna P. Loring (active Salem, late 19th century) - signer
• Mary McLean Ludlow (active Washington, D.C., 1846 - 1915) - signer
• Henri Marteau - signer
• Fanny Peabody Mason (Boston, 1864 - 1948, Beverly) - signer
• William Powell Mason (Boston, 1835 - 1901, Vienna) - signer
• Katharine Dexter McCormick (Dexter, 1875 - 1967, Boston) - signer
• Lawrence McCredy (American, active late 19th century) - signer
• Marian S. McKean - signer
• James Edward Budgett Meakin (London, 1866 - 1906, London) - signer
• Henry C. Mercer (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1856 - 1930, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) - signer
• Heinrich Meyn - signer
• Robert Shaw Minturn (New York City, 1863 - 1918, New York City) - signer
• Alvise Mocenigo (active late 19th century - early 20th century) - signer
• Olga Eliza Gardner Monks (Boston, 1869 - 1944, Boston) - signer
• Edward Moore (Cardiff, 1835 - 1916, Devon) - signer
• Marion K. Morse (active early 20th century) - signer
• Rollins Morse - signer
• Anne Wheeler Paul Nevin (Pittsburgh, 1862 - 1942, Greenwich, Connecticut) - signer
• Ethelbert Nevin (Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, 1862 - 1901, New Haven, Connecticut) - signer
• Guy Norman - signer
• Louise Norman (active early 20th century) - signer
• Charles Eliot Norton (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1827 - 1908, Cambridge, Massachusetts) - signer
• Sara Norton (born 1864) - signer
• Marion Olmsted - signer
• Mary Cleveland Perkins Olmsted (American, 1830 - 1921) - signer
• Thomas Nelson Page (Hanover County, Virginia, 1853 - 1922, Virginia) - signer
• Anne Stavely Agnew Paton - signer
• Frances Margaret Halsey Paton (New Orleans, 1867 - 1948, New York City) - signer
• Stewart Paton - signer
• Emily Russell Peirson (West Roxbury, 1843 - 1908, Beverly) - signer
• Claude Phillips (London, 1846 - 1924, London) - signer
• Anna Stirling Porter (American, active late 19th century) - signer
• Clarkson Potter (active late 19th century) - signer
• Tillie Clarkson Potter (active late 19th century) - signer
• George W. Proctor (Boston, 1873 - 1949, Los Angeles) - signer
• William King Richardson (1859 - 1951) - signer
• Arthur J. Richmond (Providence, 1865 - 1960, Natick) - signer
• Rosita Richmond (Buenos Aires, 1866 - 1919, Boston) - signer
• Silvio Risegari (active 19th century) - signer
• Arthur Rotch (Boston, 1850 - 1894, Beverly, Massachusetts) - signer
• Countess Edith Bronson Rucellai (born 1861) - signer
• Charles Sallandrouze De Lamornaix (Paris, 1840 - 1899, Cherbourg) - signer
• Charles E. Sampson - signer
• Gertrude Sampson (active late 19th century) - signer
• George Santayana (Madrid, 1863 - 1952, Rome) - signer
• Sarah Choate Sears (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1858 - 1935, West Gouldsboro, Maine) - signer
• Martha Silsbee - signer
• Francis Skinner Jr. (Boston, 1840 - 1905, Boston) - signer
• Francis Hopkinson Smith (Baltimore, 1838 - 1915, New York) - signer
• Joseph Lindon Smith (Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1863 - 1950, Dublin, New Hampshire) - signer
• Josephine Van Deventer Smith (Missouri, 1841 - 1921, Southampton, New York) - signer
• Blanche Spedden Tams (New Orleans, 1862 - 1944, New York City) - signer
• Arthur Wallace Stedman (Boston, 1855 - 1931, Unknown) - signer
• Mary Prescott Stedman (Unknown, 1862 - 1913, Boston) - signer
• Maria Longworth Storer (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1849 - 1932, Paris) - signer
• Julian Russell Story (Walton-on-Thames, 1850 - 1919, Philadelphia) - signer
• Thomas Waldo Story (Rome, 1855 - 1915, New York) - signer
• Thomas Russell Sullivan (Boston, 1849 - 1916, Boston) - signer
• Henry Walton Swift (New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1849 - 1924, Boston) - signer
• N. E. E. Thiébaut (French, active about 1890-1910) - signer
• Thomas Hitchcock, Jr. - signer
• Paul Thorndike (active early 20th century) - signer
• Rachel Thorndike (1861 - 1919) - signer
• Pier Adolfo Tirindelli (Conegliano, Italy, 1858 - 1937, Rome) - signer
• Grace Richardson Tuckerman (Brookline, 1861 - 1953, Unknown) - signer
• Harry K. Vingut (New York, 1871 - 1928, New York) - signer
• Annie Rives Wallingford (Cincinnati, 1870 - 1953, Cincinnati) - signer
• Edith Wendell (1859 - 1938) - signer
• Edith Wharton (New York, 1862 - 1937, Val d'Oise, France) - signer
• Edward Wharton (Brookline, 1850 - 1928, New York City) - signer
• John Tyler Wheelwright (1856 - 1925) - signer
• Henry M. White (active Boston, 19th century) - signer
• Margaret White (1857 - 1916) - signer
• Mary Armour Whitehouse (1868 - 1958, Winter Park, Florida) - signer
• Sarah Wyman Whitman (Lowell, Massachusetts, 1842 - 1904, Boston) - signer
• Pauline Whitney - signer
• William C. Whitney (Conway, Massachusetts, 1841 - 1904, New York) - signer
• Robert Charles Winthrop (Boston, 1834 - 1905, Boston) - signer
• Mary Walker Fearn Wolkonsky (Mobile, Alabama, 1866 - 1964, Swindon, England) - signer
• Serge Wolkonsky (Revel, 1860 - 1937, Hot Springs, Virginia) - signer
• Agnes Yeats-Brown (Castlebellingham, Ireland, about 1856 - 1940, Fairford, England ) - signer
• Montague Yeats-Brown (Genoa, 1834 - 1921, Twyford, England) - signer
• Leopold Youlston (active 19th century) - signer
• Constance Whitney Zerrahn (Boston, 1865 - 1924, Milton, Massachusetts) - signer
• Franz Eduard Zerrahn (Boston, 1858 - 1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts) - signer
• Anders Zorn (Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora) - signer

Title

Guest Book, Volume I

Date

14 June 1893 - 2 October 1894

Medium

Commercially made guest book, bound in cloth: ink on paper with gelatin silver, albumen, platinum print and cyanotype photographs

Language

English

Binding Description

blue cloth

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Inscribed in ink (flyleaf with two photographs of Isabella Stewart Gardner): Isabella S. Gardner / June 14. 1893. / Vol. I.
Printed in red ink (title page, partially covered by a photograph and cyanotype of Green Hill, the Gardners' Brookline residence): The Guest Book / An Autograph Record / of / Arrivals, Departures, Incidents, and... / with appropriate quotations / London: / ...el House, Farrindon, Street, E.C. / ... and New York

Dimensions

20.6 x 27 cm (8 1/8 x 10 5/8 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.

Gallery

Vatichino

Bibliography

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