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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
A Christmas Carol
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

A Christmas Carol

author (Portsmouth, 1812 - 1870, London)
publisher (active Boston, 1877 - 1937)
printer (active Boston and Norwood, 1884-1894)
illustrator (Passau, Bavaria, 1855 - 1932, Boston)
illustrator (Polish-American, 1856 - 1904)
Date1887
Place MadeUnited States, North America
MediumPrinted ink on paper, photogravure illustrations printed on Japanese paper
Dimensions41.9 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm (16 1/2 x 12 x 1 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number8.c.2.19
eMuseum ID716654
EmbARK ObjectID22473
TMS Source ID8118
Last Updated8/14/24
Description121 pages, 23 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 27 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.
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. 44.
MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (inside front cover, top right): 20.00
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection after 1887.
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
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