Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

Photo: Courtesy Brown University, Providence, R.I., inv. no. HIstoric Property no. 321 Click the image to enlarge	Tall case clock
	Object number RIF6172
	Maker Casemaker Unknown Clockmaker Samuel Toulmin, British, active 1757 - 1783
	Dimensions 93 � 22 3/4 � 12 in. (236.22 � 57.79 � 30.48 cm)
	Date 1760–80
	Current location Brown University
	Geography Made in Providence, Rhode Island, Made in London (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Mahogany
	Style Chippendale
	Provenance Rev. David Benedict (1779–1874), Pawtucket, Rhode Island; by descent to his daughter Maria M. Benedict (died 1891), Pawtucket, Rhode Island; by descent to her nephew John Gano Benedict. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
	Associated names John Gano Rev. David Benedict Maria M. Benedict John Gano Benedict
	See also RIF1778 RIF2108 RIF2123 RIF5448
	Bibliography "Historic Clocks: Brown University," http://library.brown.edu/cds/clocks/renderclock.php?xmlfile=toulmin.xml (accessed January 19, 2015). 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), 112n21, 318n1, 320nn4–5.

Tall case clock