Poems

author Celia Thaxter (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1835 - 1894, Appledore Island, Isle of Shoals, Maine)

publisher Houghton, Mifflin and Company (active Boston and New York, 1880 - 2007)

printer Riverside Press (active Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1852 - 1971)

Date1885

MediumPrinted ink on paper with watercolor drawings

Dimensions15.2 x 11.4 x 2.2 cm (6 x 4 1/2 x 7/8 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number10.b.1.1

Descriptionvii, 188 p. ; 15 cm. (HathiTrust rec. #008657492)

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryThe author Celia Thaxter hand painted watercolor illustrations in this copy of her 1885 book of poems. Living most of her life on the Isles of Shoals, Thaxter drew inspiration from her coastal environment. Her home on Appledore Island was a gathering place for many literary and artistic luminaries of the day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Childe Hassam.Isabella displayed this book of poetry along with Thaxter’s collection Driftweed in the Blue Room.

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Last Updated8/9/24

EmbARK ObjectID17923

Source ID6110