Object details
Object number
v.1.a.4.11
Creator(s)
Title
Travel Album: India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt, Volume VI
Date
1884
Medium
Bound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations
Dimensions
30.5 x 36 x 4 cm (12 x 14 3/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept thorough records of her travels in the form of travel albums. This album features her journeys in India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt in 1884. Composed primarily of professional and amateur commercial photographs collected at various sites, the album reveals intimate glimpses of Isabella’s artistic tastes as well her status as an American following in colonial footsteps.
Bibliography
Alan Chong and Noriko Murai. Journeys East: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2009), pp. 344-378, ill.
Pujan Gandhi. "Isabella Stewart Gardner's travel Albums through India" 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.95-107 figs. 4, 12.
Diana Seave Greenwald and Casey Riley (ed.). Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2023), pp. 28, 31, 94, 124-131, 209, figs. 7, 11, plates 27-30, no. 12.
Pujan Gandhi, "Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travels in India," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 20 February 2024, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/isabella-stewart-gardners-travels-india
Gallery
Vatichino
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