Object details
Accession number
7.2.17
Creators
Full title
The Nightingale
Creation Date
1896
Object Case
Contemporary Authors Case
Language
English
Publication Place
Boston
Description
4 p. l., 16, [4] l. incl. 3 blank l. illus. 23 cm.
Provenance
Gift from Clayton Johns, American composer (1857-1932), to Isabella Stewart Gardner, Christmas 1902.
Marks
Inscribed (Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand): Isabella Stewart Gardner from Clayton Johns, Christmas 1902, Fenway Court
Display Media
Ink 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
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 5.
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. 27, no. 31.
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