Mirror | Yale University Art Gallery

1823–30

Medium: Sylvestris pine (frame moldings; backboard), spruce (inner ring around glass), eastern white pine (carved drapery, dolphins, anchor), alder (turned crest ornaments)
Dimensions: 49 1/2 × 35 3/16 in. (125.7 × 89.3 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1946.403
Geography: Made in Portsea, Portsmouth, Great Britain
Culture: British
Period: 19th century
Classification: Furniture
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Provenance

Henry Hammond Taylor acquired this mirror in Portland, Maine, "where it had been in a private family as long as anyone could remember" (card files, FPG-Y). Taylor sold the mirror to Garvan on September 16, 1929. Gift in 1946 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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), 321–23, no. 181, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

mirrors

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