Writing Table and Bookcase Maker: Unknown

1790–1830

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany, mahogany veneer; sides and backs of small drawers in upper case, mahogany; drawer bottoms in upper case drawers, drawer sides, bottoms, backs in lower case, backboards, other elements, yellow poplar; drawer fronts in lower case, other elements, eastern white pine; transverse brace, lower case, American black cherry

Dimensions

62 1/2 × 31 9/16 × 26 3/16 in. (158.8 × 80.2 × 66.5 cm)
other (Upper case): 30 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (78.5 × 30.2 cm)
other (Lower case): 31 × 24 15/16 in. (78.8 × 63.3 cm)
other (open): 40 1/16 in. (101.8 cm)

Credit Line

Yale University Art Gallery

Accession Number

1970.98.4

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
The early history of the writing table and bookcase was unknown when it was transferred from Silliman College at Yale to the Art Gallery in 1970. A fragment of a receipt dated 1901 recently was found wedged behind the pigeonholes in the upper case, and it may provide a clue to the early in not original owners. The bill is made out on the letterhead of Louis J. Goodman, "Dealer in Wood, Coal, Hay, Straw, Fertilizer, Farming Implements, & Champion W[agons?],” in Litchfield, Conn., and it is addressed to a Mrs. M. D. F. McLaughlin. From this slim evidence, one might surmise that it was owned at an early date by Mrs. McLaughlin. Gift in 1970 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • Gerald W. R. Ward, American Case Furniture in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1988), 357–59, no. 185, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

bookcases, writing tables

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