From: Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend, Newport Cabinetmaker (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 161, cat. no. 39
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Desk and bookcase |
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Object numberRIF1410 |
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MakerMaker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/331809 |
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Dimensions98 × 40 × 22 1/2 in. (248.921 × 101.6 × 57.15 cm) |
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Date176070 |
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Current locationPrivate Collection |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); mahogany and yellow poplar (secondary) |
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Inscriptions"A, B, C, D" in chalk on the outside backboards of large drawers, beginning at the top |
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ProvenanceJonathan Nichols (17001774), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his son Walter Nichols (17481823), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his son William Stoddard Nichols (17851871), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, Thomas Pitman Nicholas (18161897), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, Othniel Foster Nichols (18451908), Brooklyn; by descent to his grandson Foster Nichols Perry (19021989), Westerly, Rhode Island, and later Suffield, Connecticut; sold to Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1972; sold to a private collection |
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Associated namesJonathan NicholsWilliam Stoddard Nichols Thomas Pitman Nichols Israel Sack, Inc. Othniel Foster Nichols Foster Nichols Perry |
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See also |
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BibliographyMorrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 13435, no. 29, ill.Michael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 173174, fig. 3.96, 3.96a, 3.96b. American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 195789), vol. 4, pp. 91517, no. P3555, ill.; vol. 8, p. 2145, ill. "Israel Sack, Inc., advertisement," Antiques 102, no. 1 (July 1972): inside cover, ill. Albert Sack, The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (New York: Crown Publishers, 1993), 167, Masterpiece, ill. |