Object details
Object number
U21w2.5
Creator(s)
Isabella Stewart Gardner
(New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Title
Plans for the Dutch Room and Short Gallery
Date
about 1914
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
33.7 x 44.5 cm (13 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Watermark: FP
Inscribed in pencil (recto): Fireplace / Second portrait instead of Rembrandt landscape/ Rembrandt landscape on table by window instead of Velazquez/ Dutch Room changes/ high cabinet with silver instead of Romney portrait / [diagram of Dutch Room east wall]
Inscribed in pencil (verso, center): New Short gallery
Inscribed in pencil (verso, around the edge of the paper, clockwise): Textiles / etchings (indecipherable) / Highboy (?) / Zorn ISG / JLG / (indecipherable) / English escritoire [secretary], Sargent Loeffler, viola d'amore
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
Nathaniel Silver and Diana Seave Greenwald. Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life (Boston, 2022), pp.103-105, fig. 54.
Gallery
Dutch Room
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