Tall Case Clock | Yale University Art Gallery

1790–1810

Medium: Mahogany; base molding of hood, cherry; back of rear feet and back of hood, white pine
Dimensions: 91 1/16 × 20 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (231.3 × 51.8 × 26.1 cm)
other (Frame, case): 15 11/16 in. (39.8 cm)
other (Lower case): 59 3/4 × 18 7/8 × 9 3/4 in. (151.8 × 47.9 × 24.8 cm)
other (Frame, lower case): 13 3/4 × 7 1/4 in. (34.9 × 18.4 cm)
other (Dial): 17 × 12 1/4 in. (43.2 × 31.1 cm)
other (Movement): 6 7/16 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (16.4 × 11.5 × 6.4 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Clark R. McIlwaine in memory of her mother Margaret Tyler Clark
Accession Number: 1946.1
Geography: Made in Grafton, Massachusetts, or Roxbury, Massachusetts
Culture: American
Period: 18th-19th century
Classification: Timepieces
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Provenance

Mrs. Clark McIlwaine, West Hartford, Conn., and Washington, D.C.; gift in 1946 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 93, ill

Edwin A. Battison and Patricia E. Kane, The American Clock, 1725–1865: The Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1973), 66–69, no. 12, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

tall case clocks

"Aaron Willard.," painted, on dial

Written in pencil on inside of lower case door near the top: "Oct. 20 1835 / J Green/ May 5 1837 / J. Green."

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