Isabella Stewart Gardner (New York, 1840 - 1924, Boston)
Photograph Album, 1892
Bound album: paper; photographs, 25.6 x 66.5 cm (10 1/16 x 26 3/16 in.)
Vatichino
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner was an avid shutterbug, taking snapshots of her friends, family, and activities for display in numerous albums. This album page shows two photographs taken in 1892, when Henry James stayed with Isabella and Jack Gardner at the Palazzo Barbaro, the palace they rented on Venice’s Grand Canal. Because the Gardners had a number of other visitors during James’s stay, they placed his bed in the library and draped it in mosquito netting—an arrangement that delighted and amused him. He called it a “paradise of a bedroom—if you keep your stockings together.”