Details

Title

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Subtitle

giving a descriptive and critical account of its treasures, which represent the arts and crafts from remote antiquity to the pre

Author

de Wolf Addison, Julia

Physical Description

xix, 454 p. front., plates, ports., plans. 21 cm.

Place of Publication

Boston

Publisher

L.C. Page and Company

Date of Publication

1910 Show more1910-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
1910-01-01T00:00:00.000Z Show less

Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.

Donor

Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.

Note

Julia de Wolf Addison (1866-1952) was an author and artist from Boston, Massachusetts. She worked in mosaic, embroidery, and illustration, but also wrote books on art and art history. In addition to this detailed guide to the holdings of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, she also wrote guides to the (American) National Gallery (1902) and the Dresden Gallery (1907). This volume is an artifact of L.M. Montgomery's trip to Boston in November, 1910, for important meetings with the publisher of her first seven books, L.C. Page. During the visit, Montgomery spent a day with Mrs. Page and another couple. They visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Montgomery enjoyed every rushed moment of the visit. She noted in her journal that she didn’t have enough time to really savor the experience but that “to see the pictures themselves was a revelation”(‘The Complete Journals of L.M. Montgomery, The PEI Years,’ Volume II, p. 326). Like the copy of ‘Fires of Driftwood’ included in this Bookshelf Collection, this book was inscribed and gifted to Montgomery’s cousin Bertie McIntyre. It reads, "To Bertie with love from L.M. Montgomery [,] November 14, 1910.” The book was donated with an accompanying postcard with a coloured lithograph of the Museum, postmarked March 7, 1910, but this card has no apparent connection to L.M. Montgomery.

Genre

book

Call Number(s)

900 SI-Bertie