Tall Case Clock | Yale University Art Gallery

1761–80

Medium: American butternut (Juglans cinerea); backboard, yellow poplar
Dimensions: 93 7/8 × 20 1/8 × 9 7/8 in. (238.4 × 51.1 × 25.1 cm)
framed: 18 3/8 × 9 in. (46.7 × 22.9 cm)
Lower case: 64 9/16 × 18 1/8 × 9 in. (164 × 46 × 22.9 cm)
Frame, lower case: 13 15/16 × 6 3/4 in. (35.4 × 17.1 cm)
Dial: 16 1/4 × 11 1/2 in. (41.3 × 29.2 cm)
Movement: 7 1/2 × 5 × 2 7/8 in. (19 × 12.7 × 7.3 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2173
Geography: Made in Fairfield, Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Timepieces
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Provenance

Found in Trumbull, CT; Henry H. Taylor, Bridgeport, CT; Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

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), 22–25, no. 1, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

tall case clocks

"William Burr 2d/of Fairfield Fecit" engraved on dial

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