Object details
Object number
ARC.008375
Creator(s)
John Lowell Gardner Jr.
(Boston, 1837 - 1898, Boston)
Title
Street in Seville, Spain
Date
1888
Medium
Albumen print
Language
English
Dimensions
21 x 16.5 cm (8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Taken by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband John L. Gardner Jr. in Seville, Spain in 1888.
Enclosed in Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Album: Spain, Volume II, 1888. (v.1.a.4.16)
Commentary
Isabella and Jack Gardner likely visited Spain in 1888 on the advice of their friend, artist John Singer Sargent. The Gardners’ route through the Iberian peninsula is carefully recorded in diaries and travel albums and follows the rough guidance that we know Sargent gave to other friends. Jack, who enjoyed experimenting with photography, took this photo of a street in the southern Spanish city of Seville during the trip.
Bibliography
Diana Seave Greenwald, "John Singer Sargent, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Spain," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2 August 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/john-singer-sargent-isabella-stewart-gardner-and-spain
Madeleine Haddon. "'Spain Says It All' Isabella Stewart Gardner's 1888 Travel Albums of Spain" in Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 63-64, fig. 5.
Gallery
Vatichino
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