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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Birds' Party
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Birds' Party

author (Southsea, England, 1850 - 1935, Geneva)
publisher (Tokyo, 1853 - 1938)
publisher (Boston, 1885 - 1908)
Date1887
Place MadeJapan, East Asia
MediumPrinted ink and color on paper
Dimensions18.5 x 12.5 cm (7 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number8.a.1.17
eMuseum ID719829
EmbARK ObjectID17695
TMS Source ID5940
Last Updated8/9/24
Descriptionv. col. fronts., col. illus.

Status
Not on view
Web 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. 46.
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.