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Photo: Courtsey The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Harvey Buchanan in memory of Penelope Draper Buchanan and Dorothy Tuckerman Draper 2013.97
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Side chairs, pair

Object number

RIF6573

Maker

Maker, attributed to John Townsend, American, 1732/33?1809

Dimensions

39 × 24 × 18 in. (99.1 × 61 × 45.7 cm)

Date

1765–1785

Current location

Cleveland Museum of Art

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany

Style

Chippendale

Provenance

George Gibbs, Jr., (1735–1803), Newport, Rhode Island; by descent to his son George Gibbs III (1776–1833); by descent to his daughter Mrs. Lucius Tuckerman (née Elizabeth Wolcott Gibbs, 1819–1906), New York and Stockbridge, Massachusetts; by descent to her son Paul Tuckerman (1856–1940), New York; by descent to his daughter Mrs. George Draper (née Dorothy Tuckerman, 1888–1969), New York; by descent to her daughter Mrs. Daniel Harvey Buchanan (née Penelope Minturn Draper, 1923–2010), Gates Mills, Ohio; by descent to her husband Daniel Harvey Buchanan (born 1923), Gates Mills, Ohio; by gift to Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, 2013

Associated names

George Gibbs, Jr.
George Gibbs III
Elizabeth Wolcott Gibbs
Paul Tuckerman
Dorothy Tuckerman
Penelope Minturn Draper
Daniel Harvey Buchanan

See also