The Hermit of the Forest
authorAttributed to
Richard Johnson
(1755 - 1827)
printer
Hosmer & Goodwin
(active Litchfield, Connecticut, 19th century)
Date1808
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions9.8 x 5.7 x 0.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 1/4 x 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.b.1.29
eMuseum ID724267
EmbARK ObjectID18152
TMS Source ID6206
Last Updated8/9/24
Description30, [2] p.: ill.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. 44.
MarksNotesInscribed in black ink (on frontispiece): 2d/ Sidney Stanley 1817
Inscribed in black ink: Eliza D Bump
Inscribed in pencil: 588/7
Inscribed in black ink (on title page): Sanford Stanley's/Book (crossed out)
Inscribed in black ink: Eliza D Bump
Inscribed in pencil: 588/7
Inscribed in black ink (on title page): Sanford Stanley's/Book (crossed out)
ProvenanceNotes
Collection of Gerald Ephraim Hart (1849-1936), Montreal, by 1890.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from auctioneers Charles F. Libbie and Co., Boston, for $14 on 16 April 1890, lot 588. (with six other chapbooks (10.b.1.27-33)
