From: Paul J. Foley, Williard's Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 18001900 (Norwell, Mass.: Roxbury Village Publishing, 2002), 91
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Banjo clock |
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Object numberRIF4617 |
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MakerClockmaker David Williams, 17691823Casemaker John Young, 17971884 |
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DimensionsHeight: 42 1/2 in. (107.95 cm) Height, movement: 4 3/8 in. (11.113 cm) |
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Date181823 |
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Current locationUnknown |
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GeographyMade in Newport, Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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Marks"D. WILLIAMS," in paint, on throat glass |
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ProvenanceUnknown |
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BibliographyPaul J. Foley, Willard's Patent Time Pieces: A History of the Weight-Driven Banjo Clock, 18001900 (Norwell, Mass.: Roxbury Village Publishing, 2002), 9091, fig. 207209.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), 113n47. |