The Snow-Image

author Nathaniel Hawthorne (Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 - 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire)

publisher Hurd and Houghton (active New York, 1864 - 1878)

illustrator Marcus Waterman (Providence, Rhode Island, 1834 - 1914, Modena, Italy)

Date1866

Place MadeMassachusetts, United States, North America

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions19.5 x 14 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number10.b.2.7

eMuseum ID729467

EmbARK ObjectID19149

TMS Source ID6608

Last Updated8/9/24

Description31 p. col. illus. 20 cm.

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. 34. (first edition)
Susan 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. 25, no. 27.
Tiffany York, "The Story of Bus Park: How Isabella's Children's Books Feuled Nari Ward's Imagination," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 14 June 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/story-bus-park-how-isabellas-childrens-books-fueled-nari-wards-imagination

ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the book dealer, Charles F. Libbie & Co., Boston on 29 April 1886 for $0.45.