Liza and Michael Moses Photographic Archive, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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Object numberRIF994 |
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MakerMaker UnknownMaker, formerly attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809 |
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Dimensions28 1/2 × 23 1/2 × 16 1/4 in. (72.39 × 59.69 × 41.275 cm) |
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Date176080 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyProbably made in Boston, formerly said to have been made in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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StyleChippendale |
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ProvenanceDr. David Townsend (17531829), Boston; by descent to Lillian Townsend Wade. Mary Elizabeth Dolan Taradash (19031981) and Mitchell M. Taradash (18891973), Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York, by 1953. Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1974 |
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Associated namesDr. David TownsendLillian Townsend Wade Mitchell M. Taradash Mary Elizabeth Dolan Taradash Israel Sack, Inc. |
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BibliographyRalph E. Carpenter, Jr., "The Newport Exhibition," Antiques 64, no. 1 (July 1953): 40, fig. 7.Ralph E. Carpenter, Jr., The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island, 16401820 (Newport, R.I.: Preservation Society of Newport County, 1954), 81, no. 53, ill. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 19571989), vol. 4, p. 1084, no. P3969, ill. Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 50, fig. 1.37. |