Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1958.2223 Click the image to enlarge	Couch
	Object number RIF2705
	Maker Maker, formerly attributed to Job Townsend, Jr., 1726–1778 Maker Unknown
	Dimensions Height : 37 3/4 in. (95.885 cm) Length: 62 1/2 in. (158.75 cm) Width: 21 3/4 in. (55.245 cm) 37 3/4 � 21 3/4 � 62 1/2 in. (95.89 � 55.25 � 158.75 cm)
	Date 1740–1760
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Made in Rhode Island, or made in Massachusetts (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium American black walnut (primary); soft maple (transverse braces)
	Marks None
	Inscriptions "X" stamped on right rear knee block and adjacent rail
	Provenance Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware; bequeathed to Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1969
	Associated names Henry Francis du Pont
	See also RIF717
	Bibliography Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 212, ill. Nancy E. Richards and Nancy Goyne Evans, New England Furniture at Winterthur: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Publications, 1997), 190–191, no. 101.

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