Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Del., 1966.112 Click the image to enlarge	Side chair
	Object number RIF4263
	Maker Maker John Townsend, American, 1732?1809
	Dimensions 38 1/2 � 21 3/8 � 17 1/2 in. (97.79 � 54.293 � 44.45 cm)
	Date 1800
	Current location Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
	Geography Made in Newport, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany (primary); birch, maple, white pine, yellow poplar (?) and chestnut (secondary)
	Marks "Made by John Townsend / Newport 1800," in ink, on a paper label glued inside rear seat rail
	Style Hepplewhite, Federal
	Provenance Admiral Stephen B. Luce (1827–1917), Newport, Rhode Island. Hyman Grossman, Boston, Massachusetts. John S. Walton, Inc., New York; sold to Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, Delaware, 1966
	Associated names Admiral Stephen B. Luce Descendants of Admiral Luce Hyman Grossman John S. Walton, Inc.
	Related objects RIF237 RIF4264
	See also RIF1453 RIF1517 RIF4554
	Bibliography Robert Bishop, Centuries and Styles of the American Chair, 1640–1970 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972), 262, fig. 398. William C. Ketchum Jr., American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), 344. Morrison H. Heckscher, John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker, exh. cat. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005), 181–83, no. 48. 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), 92n32.