Tall Case Clock | Yale University Art Gallery

1805–15

Like his father, the German immigrant and clockmaker George Hoff, John Hoff, the maker of this clock movement, was part of a community of craftsmen in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, area who continued to use traditional German clock-making techniques well into the nineteenth century. In this tall clock, a German-style movement is placed inside a distinctly American-style clock case, which features an inlaid eagle design derived from the Great Seal of the United States.

Medium: Cherry; white pine
Dimensions: 95 3/4 × 20 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (243.2 × 51.1 × 25.6 cm)
other (Frame, hood): 18 3/4 × 9 7/16 in. (47.7 × 23.9 cm)
other (Lower case): 67 1/4 × 19 × 13 3/16 in. (170.8 × 48.3 × 33.5 cm)
other (Frame, lower case): 13 3/16 × 7 1/4 in. (33.5 × 18.4 cm)
other (Dial): 18 1/2 × 13 in. (47 × 33 cm)
other (Movement): 5 3/4 × 5 × 2 3/8 in. (14.6 × 12.7 × 6.1 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1930.2280a-d
Geography: Made in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Timepieces
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

Joe Kindig, Jr., York, PA; 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), 146–149, no. 32, ill.

Theodore Sizer, "The Mabel Brady Garvan Collection of American Arts and Crafts," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 4 (December 1930), inside front cover, ill.

"Joe Kindig, Jr., advertisement," Antiques 15, no. 5 (May 1929), 422, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

tall case clocks

Marks

"John Hoff / LANCASTER," painted, on dial

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