Object details

Object number

ARC.007761

Creator(s)

• Manuscript Club (founded Boston, 1888) - publisher
• Josua Phippen (Salem, Massachusetts, 1857 - 1955, Arlington, Massachusetts) - contributor
• Edwin A. Jones (Stoughton, Massachusetts, 1853 - 1911) - contributor
• Margaret Ruthven Lang (Boston, 1867 - 1972, Boston) - contributor
• Clayton Johns (New Castle, Delaware, 1857 - 1932, Boston) - contributor
• Edward Alexander MacDowell (New York, 1861 - 1908, New York) - contributor
• Horatio W. Parker (Auburndale, Massachusetts, 1863 - 1919, Cedarhurst, New York) - contributor

Title

Autographed Concert Program

Date

28 February 1889

Medium

Ink on paper

Object Case

Musicians Case

Language

English

Signatures, inscriptions, and markings

Signed in ink: Edwin A. Jones / Clayton Johns / Joshua Phippen / Margaret Ruthven Lang / E. A. MacDowell / H.W. Parker

Commentary

This program is from a meeting of the Manuscript Club, a social music club that Isabella Stewart Gardner belonged to. Alongside the printed schedule of performances, members of the Manuscript Club have signed the program and drawn some bars of music. 

Gallery

Yellow Room

Bibliography

Julia Row Harbutt, "From Isabella's Music Room to Symphony Hall: Composer Margaret Ruthven Lang," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 5 September 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabellas-music-room-symphony-hall-composer-margaret-ruthven-lang

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