The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

publisher Phillips, Sampson and Company (active Boston, 1840 - 1865)

author Oliver Wendell Holmes (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1809 - 1894, Boston)

Date1859

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions19.4 x 12.7 x 3.8 cm (7 5/8 x 5 x 1 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number10.b.2.19

eMuseum ID728569

EmbARK ObjectID19163

TMS Source ID6621

Last Updated8/9/24

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.

MarksNotesSigned in pencil (on flyleaf, top right): John L. Gardner Jr.
Enclosed: note dated 15 December 1905. (ARC.009912).
Enclosed: Newspaper clipping of Oliver Wendell Holmes' home at 296 Beacon Street (ARC.007695)

ProvenanceNotesProbably purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband John L. Gardner (1837-1898).
Inherited by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1898.