Object details
Object number
v.2.b.3.10
Creator(s)
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Lewis Carroll
(Daresbury, England, 1832 - 1898, Guildford, England)
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author
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John Tenniel
(London, 1820 - 1914, London)
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illustrator
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Henri Bué
(1843 - 1929)
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translator
Title
Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles
Date
1869
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
French
Publication Place
London
Description
1 vol., [16] 196 p., illus., 12°
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner owned many childrens’ books—a collection that dated back to her own childhood as well as later acquisitions. This French translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland could have been a book that Isabella shared with her young nephews, who she and her husband Jack adopted in 1875 after the death of their father.
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. 23, no. 24.
Gallery
Vatichino
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