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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Beauty and the Beast
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Beauty and the Beast

author (London, 1755 - 1834, Edmonton, Middlesex)
author (Selkirk, 1844 - 1912, Banchory)
publisher (active London, 1862 - 1892)
Dateabout 1877
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions18.5 x 15 x 1.5 cm (7 5/16 x 5 7/8 x 9/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number8.a.2.22
eMuseum ID720932
EmbARK ObjectID20933
TMS Source ID7476
Last Updated8/9/24
Description[2], xxiv, 42 pages, 12°

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.
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. 28, no. 33.
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1877.