Tall Case Clock | Yale University Art Gallery

1790–91

Medium: American butternut; top and base of hood; white pine
Dimensions: 86 15/16 × 17 7/8 × 10 1/8 in. (220.8 × 45.4 × 25.7 cm)
other (Lower case): 59 3/4 × 17 7/8 × 10 3/8 in. (151.8 × 45.4 × 26.4 cm)
other (lower case frame): 12 11/16 × 7 7/8 in. (32.2 × 20 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1931.1246
Geography: Made in Windsor, Connecticut
Culture: American
Period: 18th century
Classification: Timepieces
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Provenance

Francis P. Garvan, New York. Gift in 1931 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), 34–37, no. 4, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

tall case clocks

"Thomas Lyman / Windsor" engraved on dial

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