Looking glass Maker: Unknown

1750–80

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Walnut veneer, spruce

Dimensions

45 3/4 × 25 1/16 in. (116.2 × 63.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1950.719

Geography

Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Mabel Brady Garvan (Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1886–1979), New York [see note 1]; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1950

Note 1: Two pages from what appears to be an Augusta, Maine, newspaper of 1810 were applied to the back of the frame, which suggests that this looking glass was in Maine at that time.
Bibliography
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 302–3, no. 168, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

looking glasses

Inscriptions

"2" is written in eighteenth-century script on the inside of the backboard.

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