In the Harbor: Ultima Thule

author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Portland, Maine, 1807 - 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

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

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

Date1882

MediumPrinted ink on paper with a lithograph

Dimensions17.6 x 11.4 x 1.3 cm (6 15/16 x 4 1/2 x 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number10.b.1.17

eMuseum ID718875

EmbARK ObjectID18131

TMS Source ID6195

Last Updated8/9/24

Descriptionvi p., 1 l., [9]-88 p. front. (port.) 18 cm. (HathiTrust rec. #100135949)

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.

BibliographyNotesIsabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 44.

MarksNotesPrinted on self-adhesive label (on back of front cover): Library of / Robert H. Hay
Inscribed in pencil (on back end page): 5170 / mde
Illustrated with a lithograph by an unknown illustrator
Enclosed: Newspaper Clipping of the Longfellow House, 19th century (ARC.007682)

ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1882.