Object details
Object number
ARC.000422
Creator(s)
William Sturgis Bigelow
(Boston, 1850 - 1926, Boston)
Title
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from 60 Beacon Street, Boston
Date
12 March 1895
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
English
Dimensions
20 x 25 cm (7 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Stationery printed: 60 Beacon Street.
Marked in colored pencil on envelope (recto, center left): 37
Inscribed in ink on envelope (recto, top left): Grand Hotel / Rome
Inscribed in ink on envelope (recto, botton right): Baring Bros / London / England [crossed out]
Commentary
Boston collectors swooned over Gardner’s new Botticelli. This letter from William Bigelow, a trustee at the Museum of Fine Arts, highlights the fierce competition for Italian paintings in Gilded Age America.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Presidents And Statesmen Case
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