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From: James Snowdon, "Regional Variations in Nova Scotia Planter Furniture," Margaret Conrad, ed. Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759–1800 (Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1993): 160–161, fig.4
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Low-back Windsor armchair

Object number

RIF4818

Maker

Maker, attributed to Timothy Waterhouse, 1715 - 1792

Date

1750–70

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Maple

Provenance

Originally owned by Joseph Wilson, Newport, Rhode Island, and Nova Scotia, Canada; by descent in his family

Associated names

Wilson family
Joseph Wilson

Bibliography

James Snowdon, Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759–1800, ed. Margaret Conrad (Fredericton, New Brunswick: Acandiensis Press, 1993), 160–161, fig. 4.