Object details
Accession number
8.a.1.14
Creators
Full title
The Silly Jelly-Fish
Creation Date
1886
Language
English
Publication Place
Tokyo
Binding Description
Silk stab tied
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (a set of sixteen of her Japanese Fairy Tales) from East Asian art dealer, Otto Fukushima, New York for $1.50 on 16 December 1893. She added the seventeenth volume (probably 8.a.1.3) to her collection at a later date (after 1906).
Dimensions
18 x 12.5 cm (7 1/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Display Media
Ink and color on paper
Web Commentary
Isabella 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.
Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
Susan 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. 32.
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