Photo: Courtesy Newport Restoration Foundation, R.I., 1999.392
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Dining table |
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Object numberRIF4072 |
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MakerMaker John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809 |
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DimensionsOpen: 27 1/2 × 97 5/8 × 48 1/4 in. (69.85 × 247.97 × 122.56 cm) |
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Date1796 |
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Current locationNewport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany, mahogany veneer, lightwood inlay (primary); maple, chestnut, and white pine (secondary) |
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Marks"MADE BY / JOHN TOWNSEND / NEWPORT," in ink, printed on paper label, and "1796," in ink, written on lower right of paper label, glued to center back of back rail of one half-round end |
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Inscriptions"A," on outside of one swing rail; "B," in chalk, on outside of fixed rail on other side; "A McG," in graphite, mostly illegible, on inside of one swing rail; "B," in graphite, on exterior of rear rail of one D end; possibly "A," in graphite, beneath label on exterior rear rail of other D end |
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StyleFederal |
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ProvenanceAnnie H. Cook (born ca. 1889) and Benjamin Ladd Cook (18851968), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to Mrs. Norman Cook, Middletown, Rhode Island; sold to Doris Duke (19121993) for Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, 1972; Whitehorne House Museum, Newport Restoration Foundation, Rhode Island, from 1974 |
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Associated namesBenjamin L. CookMrs. Benjamin Ladd Cook Mrs. Norman Cook Doris Duke |
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See also |
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BibliographyMichael Moses, Master Craftsmen of Newport: The Townsends and Goddards (Tenafly, N.J.: MMI Americana Press, 1984), 82, 125, fig. 2.10, 3.443.44a.Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 17173, no. 43, ill. 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), 409nn12. |