Museum Made
“Shan’t you and I have fun with my museum?
Isabella Stewart Gardner imbued her Fenway Court with her spirit and shared the delights of her Palace with exhilaration. This collection of products is directly inspired by Mrs. Gardner and her Museum–hence, "Museum Made." Click the following titles to shop specific categories within the Museum Made collection:
- Collection Confectionary
- Collection Spotlight
- From the Desk of...
- Gardner Style
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Isabella Said
- From the Desk of...
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Magnets & Mugs
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The Courtyard
Our Museum Made collection draws upon the excitement of experiencing Isabella’s Museum. We hope that these gifts become touchstones and pleasant reminders of the Museum that was built "for the education and enjoyment of the public, forever."
Gardner Tassel Bookmark
$2.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner
1888
John Singer Sargent (Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Oil on canvas
Mrs. Gardner sat for Sargent during his visit to Boston in January 1888. He was paid $3000 for the portrait, which was exhibited to great acclaim at Boston’s St. Botolph Club. The work also inspired gossip and legend: someone jokingly titled it “Woman: An Enigma,” while others believed that the sensuous display of flesh deliberately echoed the scandal recently created by Sargent’s Madame X. Mrs. Gardner herself said that she rejected eight renderings of the face until she was satisfied.
Jack Gardner seems to have asked his wife not to publicly show the portrait again while he was alive, and indeed the portrait was placed in the Gothic Room, which remained private until Mrs. Gardner’s death.
In its gallery, surrounded by altarpieces, stained glass, and religious statuary, the sacramental quality noted by nineteenth-century reviewers is even more pronounced.
6 x 2 inches
Mexican Coaster: Angel
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.
4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Mexican Coaster: Rabbit
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Mexican Coaster: Bird with Blue Border
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Mexican Coaster: Mermaid
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Mexican Coaster: Bird
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Return from the Lido Scarf
$47.00
Return from the Lido
1884
Ralph Wormeley Curtis, American, 1854-1922
Ralph Curtis was the son of Daniel and Arianna Curtis, Bostonians who moved permanently to Venice in the late 1870s. After graduating from Harvard (where he was one of the founders of the Lampoon), Curtis studied in Paris at the studio of Carolus-Duran. There he met John Singer Sargent, a distant relative, who became a good friend and sometime painting companion. Curtis met Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1884, when the Gardners spent five weeks in Venice. Thereafter, they met and corresponded frequently. Curtis found works of art for Mrs. Gardner, wrote about developments in the art world, and kept her up-to-date on “gondola gossip” in Venice.
Ralph Curtis’s painting of a gondola gliding through Venice must have held special meaning for Mrs. Gardner. Like the woman depicted, she and Curtis spent many hours in each other’s company floating through the canals. The slight touch of purple through the sky and in the water, along with the mysterious faces of the woman and her gondolier, adds the perfect tone of languid, exotic atmosphere to the scene.
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Garden of Poppies Scarf
$47.00
Garden of Poppies
about 1891
John Appleton Brown, American,1844-1902
John Appleton Brown was a landscape painted and pastellist who had studied in France with Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875). Brown established himself in a Boston studio in 1875 and concentrated upon creating poetic and pastoral depictions of the New England landscape. In Garden of Poppies, Brown employs a bright pallet to create the freshness of poet Celia Thaxter's Appledore Island garden.
33 x 45 inches100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Dormition and Assumption Silk Scarf
$160.00
The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin
1430-1434
Fra Angelico, Italian, about 1400-1455
Fra Angelico’s technical and compositional innovations paved the way for a more modern manner of painting in Florence, and he found favor with important patrons, including two popes. This panel is the third in a set of four reliquaries, or containers for holy relics, depicting episodes from the Virgin’s life.
Nineteenth-century enthusiasts celebrated this Dominican painter “Fra Angelico” (the angelic friar) for the spiritual content and lyrical quality of his work. Most of his paintings in the United States are the surviving fragments of larger works, but this one is nearly intact and was greatly admired in Boston. Gardner’s friend the American painter John La Farge, whose works can be found in the Blue Room, once reminded her that even Robert Langton Douglas, a British art critic and director of the National Gallery of Ireland, praised Gardner’s Fra Angelico in his writings.
33.5" x 45"
Courtyard Birds Scarf
$47.00
Based in Somerville, MA, Printed Village regularly issues challenges to artists around the world, creating unique and wearable designs from their submissions.The Courtyard Birds scarf design is the winning style from a Gardner Museum-inspired challenge, created by artist Polypisut Chueobchoey. Participating artists drew inspiration from the Gardner's Courtyard.
75 x 37 inches
100% Polyester
Machine Washable
Young Lady of Fashion Scarf
$47.00
A Young Lady of Fashion
early 1460's
attributed to Paolo Uccello, Italian, 1397-1475
The portrait has a highly decorative quality in which costume and ornament play a major role. The rather flatly modeled face is placed on an insubstantial bust set against a uniform blue background. The woman is portrayed both according to literary notions of female pulchritude, which called for fair skin and blonde hair, and the dictates of contemporary fashion. Costly brocaded fabrics, pearls, and precious stones serve not only to display the sitter’s familial wealth and status but also to enhance her physical appearance – in art, as in life. In addition to a red and gold brocade sleeve and a sleeveless overdress, the woman wears a head brooch, a pearl choker with jeweled pendant, and a white cap ornamented with pearls.
This fashionable beauty looks impassive, immobile, and immutable, as if she were outside space and time. Her portrait image has a static, stereotyped character, in which the sitter’s individuality is almost entirely suppressed in favor of the social ideals for which she stands.
In August 2018, choreographer, painter, dancer, and director Shen Wei transformed the Artist-in-Residence apartment at the Museum into a working studio. Wei was introduced as a young child to a variety of traditional Chinese art forms including opera, watercolor, and ink drawing. Today he is an artist who moves freely across mediums to find spiritual meaning in an increasingly material world. One of the works he was drawn to during his residency is the A Young Lady of Fashion, located in the Long Gallery. This Renaissance portrait, painted in profile, has a striking resemblance to a member of the Shen Wei Dance Arts. The encounter with this artwork inspired Shen Wei and ultimately led to the creation of Passion Spirit, a film shot at the Museum and at the Arnold Arboretum the following Summer.
33 x 51 inches100% Polyester
Machine Washable
San Giuseppe di Castello Silk Scarf
$160.00
San Giuseppe di Castello
1903
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
The different shades of the water, the brightness of the light and the dense urban architecture of Venice were elements that fascinated Sargent throughout his life. In this drawing, he turns a rather unspectacular neighborhood into a miraculous metaphor for the romantic appeal of Venice. His passion for the city apparently did not extend to its inhabitants: note, how little interest he showed in depicting the figures on the bridge.
100% Silk
33.5" x 51"
Santa Maria della Salute Silk Scarf
$160.00
Santa Maria della Salute
1903-1907
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925
By depicting the back of Santa Maria della Salute, Sargent renders this iconic Venetian site from an unusual, less formal perspective. The cropped view of fishing boats moored in the Giudecca Canal suggests the spontaneity of a modern snapshot. With its golden sunlight and striking composition, this is one of Sargent’s most brilliant watercolors.
33.5 x 51 inches100% Silk
Lavender and Honey Dark Chocolate Bar
$8.95
We collaborated with Boxborough, MA chocolatiers Lala and Neethu of Two Friends Chocolate to create our Courtyard Confections line of chocolates inspired by the Gardner Museum. These marvelous bars highlight the complex flavors of edible flowers featured in the Courtyard.This bar features a fragrant lavender and honey blend folded into a smooth dark chocolate. A crowd favorite!
Each bar is hand-wrapped in letterpress papers from Florence, Italy.
Allergen warning: Contains soy. Bars are manufactured in a facility that also processes milk, peanuts, and other tree nuts.
Annunciation Puzzle
$26.00
This 300 piece puzzle features Piermatteo d'Amelia's The Annunciation, displayed prominently in the Raphael Room of the Museum.
The painting was made for the main altar of the Franciscan church in Amelia, a small town in Umbria near Spoleto. Since 1900, the painting has borne many different attributions, and was long known simply as the work of the Master of the Gardner Annunciation, but documents now indicate that the artist is Piermatteo d’Amelia, a pupil and assistant of Filippo Lippi.
The puzzle comes in a paperboard box featuring d'Amelia's work, so you can safely store your puzzle.
Puzzle measure 11 x 17 inches
300 pieces
Gothic Room Isabella Magnet
$8.00
Isabella Stewart Gardner1888
John Singer Sargent (Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Oil on canvas
Mrs. Gardner sat for Sargent during his visit to Boston in January 1888. He was paid $3000 for the portrait, which was exhibited to great acclaim at Boston’s St. Botolph Club. The work also inspired gossip and legend: someone jokingly titled it “Woman: An Enigma,” while others believed that the sensuous display of flesh deliberately echoed the scandal recently created by Sargent’s Madame X. Mrs. Gardner herself said that she rejected eight renderings of the face until she was satisfied.
Jack Gardner seems to have asked his wife not to publicly show the portrait again while he was alive, and indeed the portrait was placed in the Gothic Room, which remained private until Mrs. Gardner’s death.
In its gallery, surrounded by altarpieces, stained glass, and religious statuary, the sacramental quality noted by nineteenth-century reviewers is even more pronounced.
Measures 5.5 inches by 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
Medusa Mosaic Magnet
$6.00
In 1892 an ancient villa was discovered just north of Rome, near the villa of Augustus’s wife Livia. Several well-preserved mosaic floors adorned the baths of the villa. Jack and Isabella Gardner inspected the mosaics in 1895 and purchased this floor in 1897. The delicate tracery of this mosaic resembles those made in Pompei around 25 AD (the late second or third style), but brick stamps indicate that it was laid a century later, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian.2.5 x 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
Nasturtium Seed Packet
$10.00
With our nasturtium seed packet, anyone can grow the very same variety of flowers that are cultivated during our annual tradition of hanging colorful displays of nasturtium vines. Contained in this packet are 30 nasturtium seeds, hand packed in the Museum. Each packet contains instructions for these easy-to-grow seeds.
Season: Annuals
USDA Zones: 3 - 10
Vining height measures 60"
Bloom season: Mid-summer through fall
Environment: Full Sun
Deer Resistant: Yes
"Come to Tea" ISGM Journal
$28.00
8.25 x 6 inches
100 unlined pages
Nasturtium Display Magnet
$12.95
Take home a piece of Isabella's Courtyard with this acrylic magnet.
Isabella Stewart Gardner began the annual tradition of hanging colorful displays of nasturtium vines that cascaded from the Courtyard balconies at Fenway. The vines continue to come alive during the week before Easter as the Gardner Museum celebrates the arrival of spring.
Photograph by Sean Dugan
Photograph by Clements & Howcroft, 2009
7 x 2 inches
Made in the USA
In the Dressing Room Magnet
$6.00
In the Dressing Room
Louis Kronberg
1910
Pastel on canvas
Kronberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1872. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the Art Students' League and at Julian's in Paris. Kronberg was keenly interested in the stage and painted many prominent theater people. Late in her life, Kronberg became Mrs. Gardner's friend and assisted her in several of her last purchases.
2.5 x 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
Self-Portrait, Aged 23 Magnet
$6.00
Self-Portrait, Aged 231629
Rembrandt, Dutch, 1606-1669
Rembrandt’s self-portraits, made throughout his long career, served many different purposes, and in these explorations of his own face and personality remain elusive in many ways. This is one of his first painted self-portraits, and unlike most of the earlier ones, it is not a study of expression or emotion. Indeed, the face, though beautifully lit with evocative shadows, is almost expressionless. The painting is all about costume: the plumed cap, silk scarf, and jacket suggest that this might be an elegant sitter, perhaps even an historic personage. The painting is large and carefully finished, almost as though it were a demonstration piece. In 1629, Rembrandt had not yet received any portrait commissions, so this work might have been done to show off his talents.
On the other hand, by 1629, the twenty-three-year-old artist had already begun to attract critical attention. Self-portraits were a desirable collectible for sophisticated connoisseurs, especially since Rembrandt here wears a golden chain, which indicates the status or nobility of the painter’s profession, although he had not received any such decoration.
3.5 x 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice Magnet
$6.00
Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice1894
Anders Zorn, Swedish, 1860-1920
While visiting the Gardners in Boston in February 1894, Anders Zorn made an etching of Mrs. Gardner, which neither of them considered to be a complete success. Later that year Zorn and his wife visited the Gardners in Venice, staying for several weeks as their guests in the Palazzo Barbaro. He attempted again to make a portrait of Mrs. Gardner, but continued to struggle with the task. One evening, Mrs. Gardner stepped out into the balcony to see what was happening outside, and as she came back into the drawing-room, pushing the French windows open, Zorn exclaimed (according to Morris Carter): “Stay just as you are! That is the way I want to paint you.” He went instantly for his materials, and then and there the portrait was begun.
3.5 x 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
The Concert Magnet
$6.00
The Concert
about 1665
Johannes Vermeer, Dutch, 1632-1675
In a pristine domestic parlor, two women and a man concentrate on making music. The standing woman holds a sheet of music and raises her hand to beat time for her companions. Turned enigmatically away from our gaze, the seated gentleman wears an elaborate decorated sash that indicates his membership in a civic militia. Some scholars have been tempted to interpret Dutch musical scenes like this as moral warnings against seduction and illicit sex. Indeed, hanging on the wall at the right is a painting of a procuress by Dirck van Baburen. Although the subject of this painting-within-a-painting seems to suggest that something improper is taking place, the Procuress was in fact owned by Vermeer's family. Moreover, the figures in the room are intently preoccupied with their music: they do not look at each other, and seem unaware they are being observed. Their intensity does not invite interruption. Lying on the large table at left is a lute, while a viola da gamba lies on the floor. Are these instruments soon to be taken up by the trio, or are others to join the group?
Vermeer crafts rather deliberately a sense of mystery: this study in social interaction is a comedy of manners open to our interpretation. The mystery is intensified by Vermeer's famed attention to the reflections of light. It sparkles off the women's pearls (Mrs. Gardner's favorite), the gold threads of the man's sash, the white silk skirt, and even the Persian carpet heaped on the table.
2.5 x 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
Mexican Coaster: Man with Staff
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Mexican Coaster: Nude Figure
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Isabella Quote Mug: "C'est Mon Plaisir"
$15.00
This mug—perfect for sipping some of our Courtyard-inspired loose leaf teas—prominently features a quote attributed to Isabella Stewart Gardner: "C'est mon plaisir,” or "It is my pleasure." The quotation reflects Mrs. Gardner's desire to share her Museum with the public, forever. We hope your pleasure will be sipping a warm beverage out of this lovely mug!
11 oz. ceramic mug
Dishwasher and microwave safe
Isabella's Opera Coat Medium Box
$165.00
This Box is inspired by Isabella Stewart Gardner's luxurious opera coat, made by the House of Worth. In keeping with a revival of interest in eighteenth-century styles, the opera coat imitates a garment inspired by men’s clothing that was worn by Marie Antoinette. The coat is made of purple silk velvet with elaborate embroidery of metallic threads and glass beads.Expertly hand-embroidered by master zardozi artisans, this Gardner-exclusive is a jeweled masterpiece of artistry and craftsmanship, a tribute to Isabella Stewart Gardner and a modern heirloom to be treasured forever.
The opulent and regal velvet Box features elaborate embroidery with metallic threads. It is embellished with semi-precious stones and an elegant metallic tassel. The Box is lined with sateen Use this Gardner-style Box as a keepsake box, treasure box, bedside table box, or entry way decoration.
Handmade in India
Box measures 8" x 8" x 2.5"
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Charles Frederick Worth (British, 1825 -1895) for House of Worth (Paris, 1858-1956)
Coat, late 1880s -1890s. Silk velvet with embroidery and beading, height: 139.7 cm (55 in.) Peabody Essex Museum, gift of Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Image courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Note to Isabella with Skeleton Sketch Print
$10.00
This print--created exclusively for Gift at the Gardner--features a a note and sketch by painter Joseph Lindon Smith. The Museum archives reveal that the artist was a friend of Mrs. Gardner's; her collection contains several of Smith's drawings and paintings.Measures 11" x 17"
Printed on milled parchment paper
Made in the US
"Enemies or Good Friends" Card
$6.25
This card features a watercolor of the Museum's Courtyard and a quote attributed to Isabella Stewart Gardner: "I feel that either we will soon become enemies, or also forever, very, very good friends. Come to tea with me this afternoon." This quotation captures the passionate and ambitious spirit of the Founder. The perfect gift for a "very, very good friend."Printed on fine letterpress paper
Blank inside
Measures 4.25" x 5.5"
Isabella's Antennae Headdress
$135.00
The Isabella's Antennae Headdress is an exclusive collaboration between Gift at the Gardner and Loschy Designs.
Isabella Stewart Gardner turned heads with her sense of style. The intricate gold headdress is inspired by Isabella's own diamond-incrusted antennae headdress, a uniquely Gardner accessory!
Extends 4.5" tall from metal headband base
Made of brass, crystal, fabric, and select gemstones
One size fits all
Headband is comfortable and flexible
Bobby pins can easily be used for added securing
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Gardner Museum Christmas Cards
$8.00
We've gathered some of the Gardner Museum's greatest paintings to form this holiday notecard collection.
- Simone Martini: Virgin and Child with Saints, about 1320
- Francesco Pesellino: Virgin and Child, about 1453-1457
- Sandro Botticelli: Virgin and Child with an Angel, 1470-1474
- Sandro Botticelli: The Nativity, about 1482-1485
- Jean Bourdichon: Book of Hours: The Annunciation, 1490-1515
20 Notecards and Envelopes
4 Each of 5 Subjects
Blank inside for your sentiments
Saint George Slaying the Dragon Magnet
$6.00
Saint George Slaying the Dragon1470
Carlo Crivelli, Italian (Venice), 1430-1495
Charged with excitement and bristling with spiky forms, Saint George Slaying the Dragon is one of Carlo Crivelli's masterpieces. Although the artist worked for more than thirty years after painting it, he never produced anything quite so full of vigor and imagination. What could be more dramatic than the contrast between the rearing horse, its head distorted with fear, and the tender saint, his eyes fixed on the dragon he is about to slaughter? Crivelli's saint is no robust hero, but a slim boy who must use all his might to wield his heavy sword. The jutting shapes of his armor are echoed in the towers of the hill town in the background. On a cliff just below it, kneels the tiny figure of the princess who was to be the dragon’s next victim.
Few paintings in the Gardner Museum are more self-sufficient. Yet Crivelli’s Saint George originated as part of a large altarpiece. Crivelli made the altarpiece for the parish church of Porta San Giorgio, a village near Fermo on the Adriatic coast. It was commissioned by an Albanian immigrant, Giorgio Salvadori.
3.5 x 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
"C'est Mon Plaisir" ISGM Journal
$28.00
"C'est Mon Plaisir"
Isabella Stewart Gardner
This hardcover journal features a portrait of Mrs Gardner by James McNeill Whistler on the front, printed with a velvet laminate finish that lends a high quality suede-like feel.
8.25 x 6 inches
100 unlined pages
The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin Magnet
$6.00
The Dormition and Assumption of the Virgin1430-1434
Fra Angelico, Italian, about 1400-1455
Possessed of great delicacy, this little painting also compels attention through its complexity. In the lower scene, enclosed by a wall, the body of the Virgin lies on a bier draped with sumptuous gold textiles. She is surrounded by Christ's disciples, who miraculously appeared as she lay dying. Four of them prepare to lift the body and carry it to the tomb. In the center of the composition, Christ, too, has appeared to accept the Virgin's soul, represented by the infant he holds in his arms. Angels fill the scene to bare witness to this striking moment.
3.5 x 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
"Don't Spoil A Good Story" ISGM Journal
$28.00
This hardcover journal features photograph of Mrs. Gardner on the front, printed with a velvet laminate finish that lends a high quality suede-like feel.
8.25 x 6 inches100 unlined pages
Courtyard Note Card Set
$24.95
Throughout the year, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's always-blooming Courtyard is transformed through a series of nine dramatic seasonal displays that reflect Isabella's passion for gardens as well as the skill and dedication of the Museum's horticulture staff.
From orchids to nasturtiums to Japanese-style chrysanthemums, there's always something new to discover thanks to the changing season and the rotation of plants. Most of the plants used for the Courtyard are grown in the Museum's temperature-controlled Hingham greenhouses and trucked to the Palace location where they are rotated in order to keep the displays in pea condition.
This set of eight note cards with envelopes showcases different views of our lush Courtyard.
6.25 x 4.75 inches box
Kitty Wink Plush
$18.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner loved dogs. Meet one of Isabella's favorite dogs, Kitty Wink!
The breed is known for its tenacious nature and eager personality! With his sporty brown and white coat of soft faux fur and shiny, dark eyes, Patty Boy will doggedly follow you wherever you go! His small size makes him ideal for on-the-go fun and his engaging stand-up pose and playful expression will win your heart.
Crafted with high-quality plush materials and durable polyester fill, our Kitty Wink Plush is ready for a lifetime of play and adventure.
Measures 7.5" × 5" × 3"
Patty Boy, the wire-haired terrier, is also available!
To learn more about Isabella Stewart Gardner's love of dogs, check out Isabella Stewart Gardner: Dog Lover.
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Henry Walton Smith (New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1849 - 1924, Boston), Isabella Stewart Gardner with her dogs, Kitty Wink and Patty Boy, on the Garden Steps of Green Hill, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1905.
Patty Boy Plush
$34.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner loved dogs. Meet one of Isabella's favorite dogs, Patty Boy!
Patty Boy's grey grizzled fur may lend him a tough appearance, but it’s actually as soft and lovable as her heart-warming expression. Made with the highest quality fabrics and materials, this mischievous pup has a mind of her own but wouldn’t think of passing up the opportunity for a cuddle! Patty Boy's soft stuffed body measures right around the size of a real terrier and is the perfect size for hugging. Realistic details such as a leatherette nose and bright amber eyes make our Patty Boy Plush an ideal companion for the most discerning dog lover.
Measures 12" × 5" × 10"
Kitty Wink, the smooth-haired Fox Terrier is also available!
To learn more about Isabella Stewart Gardner's love of dogs, check out Isabella Stewart Gardner: Dog Lover.
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Henry Walton Smith (New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1849 - 1924, Boston), Isabella Stewart Gardner with her dogs, Kitty Wink and Patty Boy, on the Garden Steps of Green Hill, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1905.
Isabella Paper Doll
$28.95
A paper doll of unusual kind!
This paper doll replicates John Singer Sargent's portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner painted during his visit to Boston in January 1888.
The Isabella Paper Doll features movable limbs with 8 points of mobility. The paper doll comes ready to mail and includes a red envelope and a foldable card of the Courtyard with a short biography of the Museum's founder on the back of the card.
Envelope measures 10" x 4.5"
Doll measures 9.25" x 3"
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"My Garden Is" Card
$6.25
This card—from local Big Wheel Press—prominently features a quote from Isabella Stewart Gardner. The spirit of Mrs. Gardner’s passion for plants blooms perennially in the Courtyard and throughout her Museum. The perfect card for the gardener in your life!
4.25 x 5.5 inchesPrinted on fine letterpress paper
Digital Card with Letterpress Accents, blank inside
Made in Massachusetts, USA
Mexican Coaster: Colorful Quatrefoil
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.
This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design
4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Medusa Face Coaster
$18.00
In 1892, an ancient villa was discovered just north of Rome, near the villa of Augustus’s wife, Livia. Several well-preserved mosaic floors adorned the baths of the villa. Jack and Isabella Gardner inspected the mosaics in 1895 and purchased this floor in 1897. The delicate tracery of this mosaic resembles those made in Pompeii around 25 AD (the late second or third style), but brick stamps indicate that it was laid a century later, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian.
Inspired by a work that now lies in the very heart of the Museum, this coaster of a closeup of Medusa's face is sure to be a touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.
4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
Mexican Coaster: Woman with Bird
$18.00
Isabella Gardner herself spent hours assembling the nearly 2,000 painted and glazed tiles into the appealing pattern we see today on the walls of the Spanish Cloister. Her friend, the artist Dodge Macknight, bought the tiles for her in Mexico in 1909 from the Church of San Agustìn in Mexico.This coaster, featuring one of the tile designs from Church of San Agustìn now located in the Museum's Spanish Cloister, is sure to be a utilitarian touchstone for your experience at the Gardner.
Other tile designs also available.
Tile edges are weathered as part of the design.4 x 4 inches
Crafted from Italian marble and heat-resistant cork backing
Made in the USA
© 2023 Gift at the Gardner.
