Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., Photo by Laszlo Bodo Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF3356
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker William Claggett, 1694–1749
	Dimensions 102 � 21 1/2 � 10 7/8 in. (259.081 � 54.61 � 27.623 cm) Width, dial: 12 in. (30.48 cm)
	Date 1725–40
	Current location Redwood Library and Athenaeum
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island, Made in Boston, Massachusetts (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Pine with black japanned decoration; pine (secondary)
	Marks "William Claggett Newport," engraved on nameplate in dial arch
	Provenance Captain John Stanton (1730–1782), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent in the Stanton family, Newport, Rhode Island to the Misses Stanton; by descent to Rev. Samuel Gavitt Babcock (1851–1938), Newport, Rhode Island, and later Boston and Marblehead, Massachusetts; given to the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island, 1948
	Associated names Captain John Stanton Stanton family Rev. Samuel Gavitt Babcock
	See also RIF4607
	Bibliography Albert L. Partridge, "William Claggett, of Newport, Rhode Island, Clockmaker," Old-Time New England 27, no. 3 (January 1937): 115, ill. Richard L. Champlin, "William Claggett and His Clockmaking Family," Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society 47, Part 3 (Summer 1974): 183–187. Richard L. Champlin, "William Claggett and His Clockmaking Family," Supplement to the Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. 11 (Summer 1976): 3, 39–45, fig. 24–30. Frank L. Hohmann III et al., Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks (New York: Hohmann Holdings, 2009), 286–287, no. 86, ill. Patricia E. Kane et al., Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650–1830, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016), 111n14, 297n5. Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III, Claggett: Newport's Illustrious Clockmakers (Winterthur, Del.: Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, 2018), 25, 62–63, 72–77, 132–33, 190–93, 244, no. 13, WC-54, fig. 1.41, 1.42, 1.43, 1.44, 1.63, 1.74, 1.77, 4.12. The Claggetts of Newport: Master Clockmakers in Colonial America, exh. cat. (Newport, R I.: Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 2019), 29, ill.