Object details
Object number
U18w96
Creator(s)
Title
Joseph Peabody Gardner, Jr.
Date
about 1880-1886
Medium
Tintype
Dimensions
2.5 x 1.9 cm (1 x 3/4 in.)
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Commentary
When their nephews were orphaned in 1875, Isabella and Jack Gardner raised the three boys as their own. Sadly, their oldest nephew Joseph Peabody Gardner, Jr. died at the age of 25. She placed his photograph alongside tintypes of herself and Jack, and beneath a portrait of her infant son Jackie who died at 22 months in a case in the Museum's Little Salon.
Bibliography
Christina Nielsen et. al. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide (New Haven, 2017), p. 5, ill.
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), p.38-39, fig. 15.
Gallery
Little Salon
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