Object details

Accession number

P3n43

Primary Creator

James Notman (Glasgow, 1849-1932, Nova Scotia)

Full title

Sarah Orne Jewett

Creation Date

1870

Object Case

Okakura Case

Provenance

Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1870.

Dimensions

35.3 x 26.7 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)

Display Media

Gelatin silver print

Web Commentary

Author Sarah Orne Jewett earned a reputation for her realist portrayal of life in New England through novels and interconnected short stories such as The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). Jewett shared a home in Beacon Hill with the author Annie Adams Fields, widow of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s publisher James Thomas Fields. Together they hosted some of the brightest minds in the American literary scene, including Willa Cather, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mark Twain.

Permanent Gallery Location

Blue Room

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