Rhode Island Furniture Archive - Yale University Art Gallery

From: Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, (Providence, R.I.: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 16, cat. 16 Click the image to enlarge	Side chairs, set of four
	Object number RIF426
	Maker Maker, attributed to Robert Sterry Burrough, 1773?1844
	Dimensions 38 1/2 � 20 1/4 � 18 1/2 in. (97.79 � 51.435 � 46.99 cm)
	Date 1795–1805
	Current location Private collection
	Geography Made in Providence, Rhode Island (view a map of Rhode Island)
	Medium Birch (primary); white pine (corner blocks)
	Inscriptions "Made by/Robert S. Burrou [torn]/ [illegible]" in ink on a paper label with red borders with canted corners glued inside a seat rail
	Style Hepplewhite, Federal
	Provenance Robert Sterry Burrough (1773–1844), Providence, Rhode Island; by descent to his son, Robert S. Burrough, Providence; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Edward Allen Swain (n�e Martha Burrough), Pomfret, Connecticut; by descent to her son, Leonard Swain (born 1891), Pomfret; by descent to his daughter Edith (Dede) Swain Bullock
	Associated names Robert Sterry Burrough Robert S. Burrough, Jr. Martha H. Walker Martha Burrough Edward Allen Swain Leonard Swain Mrs. Leonard Swain
	See also RIF180 RIF627 RIF1256 RIF1386 RIF1474 RIF1520 RIF1602 RIF1783 RIF2404 RIF2405 RIF2427 RIF2527 RIF2827 RIF2921 RIF2983 RIF2987 RIF3015 RIF3025 RIF3220 RIF3255 RIF3484 RIF3729 RIF3782 RIF3808 RIF3836 RIF3858 RIF3942 RIF4036 RIF4076 RIF4382 RIF4698 RIF4707 RIF4708 RIF4773 RIF4964 RIF4967 RIF4968 RIF4969 RIF4970 RIF4971 RIF4972 RIF5507
	Bibliography Eleanore Bradford Monahon, "Providence Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," Antiques 87, no. 5 (May 1965): 574, fig. 2. Joseph K. Ott, The John Brown House Loan Exhibition of Rhode Island Furniture, exh. cat. (Providence: The Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965), 16–17, no. 16, ill. 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), 85–86, 421n6, fig. 20.