Photo: Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Eighteenth-Century American Arts 39.156
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Desk and bookcase |
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Object numberRIF744 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight to top of pediment: 92 7/8 in. (235.903 cm) Height to eagle wing: 95 5/8 in. (242.888 cm) Width of desk: 44 3/8 in. (112.713 cm) Depth of desk: 22 in. (55.88 cm) |
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Date175075 |
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Current locationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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GeographyMade in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); chestnut, pine, and cherry (secondary) |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceColonel John Cooke (17441812), Middletown, Rhode Island; by descent to an unidentified individual, Tiverton, Rhode Island; sold to Martha Codman Karolik (18581948) and Maxim Karolik (18931963), Boston, Massachusetts, and Newport, Rhode Island; given to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1939 |
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Associated namesColonel John CookeMaxim Karolik Martha Codman Karolik |
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BibliographyEdwin J Hipkiss, Eighteenth-Century American Arts: The M. and M. Karolik Collection (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1950), 3435, no. 20, ill. |