Moses in the Bulrushes
authorAttributed to
Hannah More
(Fishponds, 1745 - 1833, Bristol)
printer
Isaiah Thomas
(Boston, 1749 - 1831)
Date1802
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions10.8 x 7 x 0.3 cm (4 1/4 x 2 3/4 x 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number10.b.1.31
eMuseum ID723637
EmbARK ObjectID18158
TMS Source ID6210
Last Updated8/9/24
Description31 p.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), pp. 14-15, no. 7d, ill.
MarksNotesInscribed in ink (on cover): Elias Nason/1863
Inscribed in ink (on frontispiece): Sarah W Rork
Inscribed in ink (on title page): E. Nason
Inscribed in ink (on frontispiece): Sarah W Rork
Inscribed in ink (on title page): E. Nason
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)
