Photo: Courtesy The Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island; photo by Gavin Ashworth
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Overmantel painting |
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Object numberRIF3352 |
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MakerArtist Unknown |
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Dimensions33 3/4 × 67 1/4 × 2 in. (85.73 × 170.82 × 5.08 cm) |
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Dateprobably 1740 |
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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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MediumOil on wood |
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ProvenanceOriginally part of Philips House, Newport, Rhode Island. Private collection |
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Associated namesPhillips House |
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BibliographyMorrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 23, fig. 12.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), 3536, fig. 1. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 17, 38, fig. 3. |