Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1954.0074.007
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Sack-back Windsor armchair |
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Object numberRIF1292 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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DimensionsHeight: 39 1/2 in. (100.33 cm) Seat: 18 1/8 × 21 1/4 × 15 1/2 in. (46.04 × 53.98 × 39.37 cm) Width, arms: 23 3/16 in. (58.896 cm) |
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Date17901800 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island, Probably made in Providence, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumWhite pine (seat); soft maple (legs, stretchers, spindles, and arm supports); white oak (bow and arm rail) (microanalysis) |
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MarksNone |
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Inscriptions"[W]hen Rev. David Tenney Kimball / began house keeping he brought two / Windsor chairs and the tall clock wh[ich] / had belonged to his father. / One chair was given to D. A. Kimball / [One chair was given to] E. K. Gray [?] / The clock was inherited by E. K. G. Y.[?] / under will of Mrs. Mary S. C. Peabody," written in ink, on paper label glued to underside of seat |
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ProvenanceReverand David Tenney Kimball (17821860), Ipswich, Massachusetts. Ernest B. LaGrange (18791970), Wilton, Connecticut, before 1937. Charles K. Davis (18891968), Fairfield, Connecticut; given to Winterthur Museum, Delaware, 1954 |
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Associated namesRev. David Tenney KimballErnest B. LaGrange Charles K. Davis |
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BibliographyNancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Chairs (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 261, fig. 6-40.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), 38586, no. 85, fig. 1. |