Fellow Wanderer: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Travel Albums Greenwald Diana Seave

A revealing and beautifully illustrated critical edition of Gardner's collaged travel albumsIn 1865, art collector and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) lost her only child to pneumonia at less than two years old. It was the first of many trips abroad that would eventually take her from the Middle East to Asia--trips that she documented in exquisitely crafted collaged travel albums. In an effort to rouse her from depression, Gardner and her husband, Jack, travelled to northern Europe and Russia.

Fellow Wanderer brings together nearly thirty of Gardner's striking travelogues, spanning some thirty-nine countries and offering invaluable perspective on the global influences on this legendary collector and patron of the arts.This book features beautiful facsimiles of Gardner's travel albums--largely unpublished until now--along with essays by