Collection

Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 7500 paintings, sculptures, furniture, textiles, silver, ceramics, 1500 rare books, and 7000 archival objects-from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. Explore objects in Isabella's collection below.

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Thomas Sully

Isabella Tod Stewart

Chinese

Mat Weights: Bears

Celia Thaxter

Poems

Francesco Torbido

Portrait of a Lady in a Turban

James McNeill Whistler

The Little Note in Yellow and Gold

Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts

The River at Concord

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The digitization of the Gardner's Hidden Collections was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.