A History of European and American Sculpture

author Chandler Rathfon Post (Detroit, 1881 - 1959, Foxboro, Massachusetts)

publisher Harvard University Press (active Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1913 - present)

printer Harvard University Press (active Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1913 - present)

Date1921

MediumPrinted ink on paper

Dimensions27.3 x 19.1 x 3.8 cm (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

ClassificationsBooks

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession number10.c.1.19

eMuseum ID726527

EmbARK ObjectID19218

TMS Source ID6676

Last Updated8/9/24

Description2 v. plates. 27 cm. (HathiTrust rec. #000431071)

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.

MarksNotes

Printed on bookplate (inside front cover): Mr. Chandler Rathfon Post

Inscribed in pencil (on bookplate): Merry Christmas 1921

Stamped (on front endpaper): Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Typed on glued piece of paper (on front end paper): "Alla barba di Pilato / Gesù è risusciato; / Alla barba d'Annanasso / Le campane fan fracasso; / Alla barba di Erode / Noi mangiamo le uova sode. / Non più noci, / Non altari senza croci, / Non più prediche alla buia, / Alleluia! Alleluia!"

Inscribed in pencil (on paper): A happy Easter / Chandler R. Post
Illustrated with photographs by various photographers.

ProvenanceNotesChristmas gift from author Chandler Rathfon Post (1881-1959) to Isabella Stewart Gardner, probably on 25 December 1921.