Chest of Drawers | Yale University Art Gallery

1790–1810

Medium: Soft maple; eastern white pine
Dimensions: 49 5/8 × 40 11/16 × 19 1/2 in. (126 × 103.3 × 49.5 cm)
other (Case): 37 1/2 × 17 13/16 in. (95.2 × 45.2 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2392
Geography: Possibly made in Salisbury, New Hampshire
Culture: American
Period: 18th–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

Henry Hammond Taylor, Bridgeport, Conn.; by sale to Francis P. Garvan, New York Gift 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Joshua A. Klein, "An Unjustified Mystique: Period Dovetails Up-Close," Mortise and Tenon Magazine (2016), 119, ill

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), 123, 145–46, 211, 311, 463, no. 65, ill

Charles Parsons, The Dunlaps and Their Furniture (Manchester, N.H.: The Currier Gallery of Art, 1970), n.p., [included in catalogue but not in exhibition], fig. 57

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

chests of drawers

Signed in red paint on the outside of the back: "Samuel / Dunlap." There is a vertical chalk mark on the inside back of each drawer.

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