Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1966.112
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Side chair |
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Object numberRIF4263 |
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MakerMaker John Townsend, American, 1732/331809 |
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Dimensions38 1/2 × 21 3/8 × 17 1/2 in. (97.79 × 54.293 × 44.45 cm) |
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Date1800 |
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Current locationWinterthur Museum, Garden, and Library |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany (primary); birch, maple, white pine, yellow poplar (?) and chestnut (secondary) |
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Marks"Made by John Townsend / Newport 1800," in ink, on a paper label glued inside rear seat rail |
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ProvenanceAdmiral Stephen B. Luce (18271917), Newport, Rhode Island. Hyman Grossman, Boston, Massachusetts. John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1966 |
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Associated namesAdmiral Stephen B. LuceDescendants of Admiral Luce Hyman Grossman John S. Walton, Inc. |
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See also |
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BibliographyRobert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 16401970 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), 262, fig. 398.Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 18183, no. 48. 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), 92n32. William C. Ketchum Jr., American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), 344. |