Photo: Courtesy Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Bequest of Mr. Charles L. Pendleton, 04.042; photo by Erik Gould
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Desk and bookcase |
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Object numberRIF1233 |
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MakerMaker attributed John Goddard, American, 17231785 |
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Dimensions101 x 45 1/2 x 27 in. (256.541 x 115.57 x 68.58 cm) |
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Date176070 |
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Current locationMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); cedar (interior of bookcase, back boards of bookcase, and linings of interior desk drawers); pine (pediment boards, back boards of desk, board under desk interior, backing of drawer dividers, linings of exterior drawers, brackets of rear feet, and original horizontal blocks of feet); maple (blocks on interior of lopers and bottom boards of desk); chestnut (vertical blocks of front feet) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions1 through 4, in chalk, on interior backs of proper-right interior desk drawers; 5 through 7, in chalk, on interior backs of prospect drawers; 8 through 11, in chalk, on interior backs of proper-left interior desk drawers; I and IX, incised, on tops of interior shell drawers; 1 through 6, in chalk, on interior backs of valance drawers; I through VI, incised on top fronts of valance drawers; possible letter, in graphite, on exterior bottom of top exterior desk drawer; B, in chalk, on interior back of middle exterior desk drawer; illegible chalk, on interior back of lower exterior desk drawer; A and B, in graphite, on tops of dividers under top and middle exterior desk drawers; Bottom, in graphite, on exterior bottom of desk |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceCharles L. Pendleton (18461904), Providence, Rhode Island; bequeathed to Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1904 |
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Associated namesCharles L. Pendleton |
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NotesThis example is one of nine Rhode Island blockfront desk and bookcases onamented with six shells. |
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See also |
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BibliographyLuke Vincent Lockwood, The Pendleton Collection (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1904), 232-236, pl.56, 57, ill.Luke Vincent Lockwood, Colonial Furniture in America, 3rd ed., 2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), vol. 1, pp. 250253, fig. 274. Hedy B. Landman, "The Pendleton House at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design," Antiques 107, no. 5 (May 1975): 936, ill. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 316317, no. 57, fig. 8.11, 8.11ac. Christopher P. Monkhouse and Thomas S. Michie, American Furniture in Pendleton House (Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986), 9799, no. 40, ill. Brock Jobe, "The Lisle Desk-and-Bookcase: A Rhode Island Icon," American Furniture (2001): 131132, 144145, fig. 1517, 4243, 45. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 16501830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 294n3, 300, 301nn12, 313n1, fig. 5. |