The Silly Jelly-Fish
publisher
Hasegawa Takejiro
(Tokyo, 1853 - 1938)
illustratorIllustrated by
Kobayashi Eitaku
(Tokyo, 1843 - 1890, Tokyo)
translator
Basil Hall Chamberlain
(Southsea, England, 1850 - 1935, Geneva)
Date1886
Place MadeJapan, East Asia
MediumPrinted ink and color on paper
Dimensions18 x 12.5 cm (7 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number8.a.1.14
eMuseum ID719979
EmbARK ObjectID17692
TMS Source ID5937
Last Updated8/9/24
Description18 p. (on double leaves) : col. ill. ; 15 cm.Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesSusan Sinclair and Philip B. Eppard. Catalogue of Children’s Books from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection and the Personal Libraries of John Lowell and Isabella Stewart Gardner (Boston, 1988), p. 28, no. 32.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the East Asian art dealer, Otto Fukushima, New York for $1.50 for sixteen volumes on 16 December 1893.
