Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence Click the image to enlarge	High chest of drawers
	Object number RIF813
	Maker Maker attributed John Townsend, American, 1732–1809
	Dimensions 82 x 40 1/4 x 21 in. (208.28 x 102.235 x 53.34 cm)
	Date 1760–70
	Current location Unknown
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); chestnut and yellow poplar (secondary)
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Elisha Dyer (1770–1845) Providence, Rhode Island; by descent in his family to Elisha Dyer, Jr., Washington, Connecticut
	Associated names Elisha Dyer Elisha Dyer, Jr.
	Bibliography James Biddle, American Art from American Collections: Decorative Arts, Paintings, and Prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods from Private Collections, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1963), 30, no. 56, ill. James Biddle, "American Art from American Collections," Antiques 83, no. 3 (March 1963): 312, fig. 8. Clifford P. Monahon, "John Brown House Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture," Rhode Island History 24, no. 2 (April 1965): cover, ill. Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 92–93, no. 60, ill. Morrison H. Heckscher, "John Townsend's Block-and-Shell Furniture," Antiques 121, no. 5 (May 1982): 1152, fig. 22. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 145, 180–181, fig. 3.100, 3.100a-b.