Object details

Object number

ARC.006504

Creator(s)

Matthew Stewart Prichard (Somerset, 1865 - 1936, Buckinghamshire)

Title

"Jewelry as an Art"

Date

May 1907

Medium

Ink on paper

Language

English

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Stamped (upper right): Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Inscribed in ink (top right): C-pers./nts.
Inscribed in ink (upper): Matthew Stewart Prichard/ / Jewellery as an art. / A conference "given at the Museum / of Fine Arts (probably in 1906)
Inscribed in pencil (upper): May / see his letter to Mrs. Gardner, May 13, 1907
Inscribed in ink (right margin): C - Ob/nts. Little Salon - Jewelery

Provenance

Presumably a gift from art historian Matthew Stewart Prichard to Isabella Stewart Gardner after 1907.

Commentary

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