Object details
Object number
ARC.007881
Creator(s)
Title
Catalog of Fenway Court, Annotated by Morris Carter
Date
1919 - 1924
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in ink (lower): From Parthenay / in Poitou. / French stone Madonna Early Trecento. / From the Abbey of Valoire near Amiens. / Jiles, Early 17th century. From Church of / San Agostin, Atlixco, (State of Puebla) Mexico
Inscribed in ink (upper): From the Jaillerand Collection, Paris. bougt in Rome
Inscribed in pencil (lower): in one of them, man biting column (see cutting)
Inscribed in ink (lower): the question at Washington is whether the Senate or the President is fitin / granite
Inscribed in ink (right margin): almost identical / with one by him / on tomb in S. Miniato / Little chanelier from / the Deacon House
Inscribed in pencil (left margin): max II / once commented with name of / Civitale
Inscribed in pencil (right): Raffaele Savaoni
Inscribed in pencil (right margin): Esther at the feet of / Ahasuerus / Queen of Sheba + / Solomon
Inscribed in pencil (upper): bought 1896. / Sullivan Journal. P. 160 / Consultation of Arab Physiciains.
Dated in pencil (lower): date 1520.
Inscribed in ink (upper): bought 1896. Sullivan Journal. p. 161/
Inscribed in ink (upper): Gift of Charles Eliot Norton
Inscribed in pencil (upper): Sir Henry of Suffolle
Inscribed in ink (upper right): The Abbey of Ronceray, angers.
Inscribed in ink (right margin): Tapestry, Man / delivering letter to / a lady, bought in Paris
Inscribed in ink (left margin): Carls of Arundel / afterwards / Duke of Norfolk / natural son of Charles II / + Lucy Walters
Inscribed in ink (lower): From the Hope Collection
Inscribed in ink (left margin): From Stowe / House. / Bought 1896 / Sullivan: / Journal. P. 160
Inscribed in pencil (left margin): Mrs Gardner / says this is the first picture nough for the collection
Inscribed in ink (right margin): Dieulafay. Spain + / Portugal ([illeg] / , from Larida W.W.6 (cook)
Inscribed in ink (right margin): Iron balcony (with holders / for flower-pots) from Naples. / Purple silk, gift of / Wetzel, used at picnics / of Japanese nobles to screen / them from populace. / Oriveto.
Inscribed in ink (left margin): wine tasters
Inscribed in pencil (left margin): Artists' name as given / by dealer, Tavenza [?]. 1892 / Title on Mr. / Gardner's list / of purchases.
Inscribed in pencil (right margin): Adoration of Statue of Nebu- / chadnezzar by Pietro / Muttoni
Inscribed ink (lower right): Sullivan Journal. p. 160 gives / date of purchase, 1896. / Lippo Lippi. [Note crossed out].
Inscribed in ink (lower): (Seraphin / red) / From Charles Briun Perkins.
Inscribed in ink (left margin): God, surrounded / by Cheubin [illeg]
Inscribed in ink (upper): one of the finest things in the house, from a sacristy probably / Carried away / from Prado by / Queen Christina / whose daughter / married Prince del Drago in Italy, from whose son picture was bought
Inscribed in ink (upper): Your French Gothic candlesticks, with symbols of / the Passion año de 1 - 57... Evgenio Hernandez.
Inscribed in ink (upper): In wall above, Lion heads, bought from Bardini, in / Florence, from whom Mrs. G got the blue of the corridor. / Bardini used it everywhere as the best general back- / ground. Byzantine peacocks from Venice.
Inscribed in pencil (right margin): not in the purchase / with the altar + / frescos
Inscribed in ink (right margin): from Emilio / Constantini / Florence / from the [illeg] of the / Misericordia, Venice
Inscribed in ink (lower): The two large ones from / Torcello / Looking back from landing, St. Barbar / I ran railings Sicilian. / Tapestry (woman in sleigh) probably bough with a lot / that came from Mexico + were sold at auction, + Mr. + Mrs. / Gardner bough them all.
Inscribed in ink (center): Mrs. Lady / bust Mrs. "Boho" Sargent. / Parrot by Marchall / Turkish fountain by William Ranken
Inscribed in ink (lower): in wall above lion of / St. Mark with book closed / signifying Venice at / Place. Very few [illeg] / found in Veneto with / closed book. Sometimes / found in Damaltia. / Circular medallions are Byzantine, from Venice. / Two slender columns (flanking hawk) / bought of Bardini, said to have come from / Garden of Sallust. (??)
Inscribed in ink (left): Celia Thaxter's Garden at Isles of Shoals.
Inscribed in ink (right): Portrait de / Mme Gaujelin / , sketch of I.S.G. / by Sargent / Gaston de Foix / His mother / Edouard 1833 - 1883
Inscribed in ink (right margin): 2 water colors / by Francis E / James / red chalk / + drawin (I.S.G)
Inscribed in pencil (lower): Voerman (In R. Curtis letter's from Cadenabia [?] )
Inscribed in pencil (top right): post 1919 / Carter's / hand
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