Egypt Diary
With albumen print photograph by Francis Frith (English, 1822-1898)
Isabella Stewart Gardner (American, 1840-1924)
Watercolor and ink on paper, 1874-1875
Gardner’s travel diary contains her handwritten narrative as well as commercial photographs and her own watercolor landscape studies. This page opening shows her interest in Egyptian mashrabiya, a type of window screened by latticework.
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