Provenance

Commissioned by Alumni Hall [see note 1]. Acquired by Mary Walton (1915–2006) and John S. Walton (1907–1985), Griswold, Conn., by 1979; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1979

Note 1: This table was made for use in the examination room of Alumni Hall in 1853. President Theodore Woolsey of Yale instituted biennial written examinations for undergraduates, and this system continued for fifty years until the early twentieth century. It was demolished in 1911 with the discontinuation of the biennial group examinations (David L . Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), p. 77)