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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Private Life of Lewis XV: Volume IV
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Private Life of Lewis XV: Volume IV

author (Guéret, 1728 - 1795, Paris)
printer (active Dublin, 18th century)
translator (British, 1737-1786)
subject (Versailles, 1710-1774, Versailles)
Date1781
Place MadeIreland, Europe
MediumPrinted ink on paper
Dimensions17.5 x 11 x 3 cm (6 7/8 x 4 5/16 x 1 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number8.a.2.4
eMuseum ID717231
EmbARK ObjectID23550
TMS Source ID8490
Last Updated8/9/24
Description4v. ; 12⁰.

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
Bookplate (inside front cover, center): Sam.L P. Gardner's
Inscribed in pencil (inside front cover, top center): Champ de Mars or de Mai / Bacl of Justice - 160 
Printed in black ink (front flyleaf, center): Samuel Gardner.


ProvenanceNotesIn the collection of Samuel Pickering Gardner (1767-1843), grandfather of Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband, John Lowell Gardner, Jr. (1837-1898).
Likely by inheritance to John Lowell Gardner, Jr. after 1843.