{"id":22749,"date":"2023-03-05T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=22749"},"modified":"2023-03-05T12:49:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-05T17:49:59","slug":"what-isabella-stewart-gardner-saw-on-her-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2023\/03\/05\/what-isabella-stewart-gardner-saw-on-her-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"What Isabella Stewart Gardner Saw On Her Travels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After the death of their 20-month-old son Jackie in 1865, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack sought solace by traveling the world by boat, train and foot. They traveled for months at a time, paid for with wealth from investments in real estate and industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardner recorded her adventures to more than 39 countries (based on today\u2019s borders) between 1867 and 1895 in albums collaged with tourist souvenir photos (think early postcards), pressed botanicals and various papers. They\u2019re featured in \u201cFellow Wanderer: Isabella\u2019s Travel Albums”<\/a> at Boston\u2019s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from Feb. 16 to May 21, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA contemporary look at the albums also provides a tool for considering the ways in which the couple\u2019s trips,\u201d the museum says, \u201c\u2014and their perceptions of foreign cultures, many under European imperial rule\u2014were facilitated by their status as wealthy white Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year-long trip around the world from 1883 to 1884 to China, Japan, India, Cambodia\u2019s 12th-century temple complex Angkor Wat, ending with a month Europe, primarily in Venice, Italy. While in northwest India, Gardner watched a performance of the court dance nautch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe setting, a central courtyard surrounded by open balconies, may look familiar,\u201d a museum sign explains. \u201cThe space recalls Gardner\u2019s own museum Courtyard: she seems to have been inspired both by Mughal and Italian architecture when designing the space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s Travel Album: India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt, Volume VI, 1884.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s Travel Album: India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt, Volume VI, 1884.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s Travel Album: China, Volume III, 1883.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Isabella Stewart Gardner (right) photographed with friends in her Travel Album: China, Volume III, 1883.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s Travel Album: Japan Volume I, 1883.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s Travel Album: India, Volume V, 1884.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s Travel Album: China, Volume III, 1883.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Isabella Stewart Gardner\u2019s Travel Album: Italy, 1884.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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