Object details
Accession number
1.b.1.19
Primary Creator
Full title
Dance of Death [Les images de la mort, auxquelles sont adioustees dixsept figures. Davantage, La medecine de l’ame. La consolation des malades. Vn sermon de mortalité, par saint Cyprian. Vn sermon de patience, par saint Iehan Chrysostome]
Creation Date
1562
Language
French
Publication Place
Lyon
Description
1 vol., 24°
Provenance
Collection of the English art collector and watercolor painter Edward Cheney (1803-1884), London.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Edward Cheney sale at the auction house Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London for £4.4, on 20 July 1886 through the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908) and the bookseller and publisher Bernard Quaritch (1819-1899), London, lot 920.
Marks
Affixed: bookplate of Edward Cheney
Enclosed: bliographic description [hand of Morris Carter]
Dimensions
13.65 x 9.21 cm (5 3/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
Display Media
Printed 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
Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the Choice Library of the late Edward Cheney, Esq. (London, 25-29 June 1886), lot 920.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 36.
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Manuscripts and Bookbindings from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1922), p. 74.
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