Whittington and His Cat
author
Unknown
printer
Nathaniel Patten
(about 1752 - 1834)
Date1788
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions9.5 x 6.4 x 0.3 cm (3 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.b.1.28
eMuseum ID723960
EmbARK ObjectID18153
TMS Source ID6207
Last Updated8/14/24
Description[2], 28, [2] p. : ill. ; 10 cm. (32mo)Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner was a voracious reader, and books were the first objects that she collected. Of the 2700 books she acquired for her museum, about 120 can be considered children's books.
This title is a classic tale of a young orphaned boy's rise to wealth and high office in London.
This title is a classic tale of a young orphaned boy's rise to wealth and high office in London.
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. 16, no. 7e, ill.
MarksNotesInscribed in black ink: Whitting nd/ his Cat/ M Sally/ Sally Loomis
Inscribed in black ink (on page 28): Sally Loomis
Inscribed in black ink (inside back cover): Loomis Sally
Inscribed in black ink (on page 28): Sally Loomis
Inscribed in black ink (inside back cover): Loomis Sally
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)
