(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Trackless Regions

author Gretchen Osgood Warren (Boston, 1871 - 1961, Boston)

publisher Longmans, Green, and Co. (active London, 1889 - 1914)

publisher B.H. Blackwell Ltd. (established Oxford, 1879)

Date1917

Place MadeNew York City, New York, United States, North America

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions20.3 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm (8 x 5 1/4 x 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberSP1925.1.1003

eMuseum ID730777

EmbARK ObjectID26500

Previous NumberSP1925.2

TMS Source ID10214

Last Updated8/9/24

Description4 p. l., 118, [1] p

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryIsabella's close friend Gretchen Osgood Warren was a highly accomplished woman. Her mother, Margaret Cushing Osgood, was an author, and her father, Hamilton Osgood, a doctor who worked with the renowned scientist Louis Pasteur in France. She grew up moving between Boston and cities across Europe, where she studied languages, science, art, music, and literature. In 1891 she married fellow Bostonian Fiske Warren, and the two later moved to Oxford, England, where Gretchen pursued philosophy and metaphysics. When the Warren family returned to Boston, she continued to develop her intellectual interests and published several volumes of poetry. She gave copies of her poems to Isabella as tokens of their friendship.

BibliographyNotesChristina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), p. 57, no. 8.

MarksNotesPrinted on title page: I journeyed in desert places where was no inhabitant / And in trackless regions I pitched my tent. / But there was given to me water out of the flinty rock, / And healing for my thirst out of the hard stone."
Inscribed in pencil (on pastedown): 125 / x / 2-1-18

ProvenanceNotesProbably a gift from the actress, singer and poet, Gretchen Osgood Warren (1871-1961) to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1917.
Kept in Isabella's personal library and acquired by the museum in 1925.