Desk Maker, attributed to: Samuel Dunlap (American, 1752–1830)

1790–1810

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Soft maple; eastern white pine

Dimensions

41 7/16 × 39 9/16 × 19 5/8 in. (105.3 × 100.5 × 49.8 cm)
other (Case): 37 7/8 × 18 3/4 in. (96.2 × 47.7 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2272

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
Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1930 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • 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), 146, 310–11, 463, no. 162, ill
  • Charles Parsons and David S. Brooke, "The Dunlap Cabinetmakers," Antiques 98 (August 1970), 228, fig. 8
  • Charles Parsons, The Dunlaps and Their Furniture (Manchester, N.H.: The Currier Gallery of Art, 1970), n.p., fig. 74
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

desks

Inscriptions

"B" is written in chalk on the inside of the back of each of the lower three wide drawers in the desk. There are numbers and letters in chalk on the inside bottom of an interior drawer, and the left and right side interior drawers in the lower level are marked "L" and "R" respectively, as are the top edges of the lopers.

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