Object details
Accession number
v.1.a.4.7
Primary Creator
Isabella Stewart Gardner
(New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Full title
Travel Album: China and Japan, Volume II
Creation Date
1883
Marks
Inscribed in ink in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand on the second page: I.S. Gardner - / 1883. August 8. / Japan - / Vol. II
Dimensions
31.8 x 26.2 x 4.6 cm (12 1/2 x 10 5/16 x 1 13/16 in.)
Display Media
Bound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept records of her worldwide travels in the form of albums. In 1883, Isabella and Jack Gardner were among a select group of wealthy global travelers who were able to take advantage of relaxed political restrictions and improved travel infrastructure early in the modern history of tourism to Japan. The tourism market for photography was already well-established and Isabella purchased nearly two hundred individual photographs from commercial photography studios and other vendors during her visit. She arranged them in this album to chronicle places she visited.
Permanent Gallery Location
Vatichino
Bibliography
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 152-191, ill.David Oto. "Deceptive Intimacy: Isabella Stewart Gardner's 1883 Japan Travel Albums" 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.161-177, figs. 5, 10. Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 160, 186-189, 208, plates 41-42, no. 8.
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