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Photo: Courtsey New-York Historical Society Museum, Gift of Edmund Astley Prentis, 1956.129
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Slant-front desk |
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Object numberRIF618 |
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MakerMaker UnknownMaker, formerly attributed to Job Townsend, Jr., 1726?1778 |
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Dimensions41 3/4 × 39 × 22 in. (106.045 × 99.06 × 55.88 cm) |
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Date1760–90 |
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Current locationNew-York Historical Society Museum |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceEdmund Astley Prentis, Jr. (1884–1967), New York; given to the New York Historical Society, New York, 1956 |
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Associated namesEdmund Astley Prentis, Jr.Katherine Prentis Murphy |
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BibliographyRalph E. Carpenter, Jr., "The Newport Exhibition," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 42, fig. 17.Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 1640–1820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 73, no. 45, ill. Helen Comstock, American Furniture: Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Century Styles (New York: Viking Press, 1962), 188, fig. 325a, 325b. |
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