Tall Case Clock | Yale University Art Gallery

1820–40

Medium: Mahogany, inner base molding on hood, cherry; top of hood, yellow poplar; sides of case and hood, white pine
Dimensions: 98 15/16 × 21 3/4 × 11 1/8 in. (251.3 × 55.2 × 28.3 cm)
other (upper case frame): 20 1/8 × 10 1/4 in. (51.1 × 26 cm)
other (Lower case): 66 1/16 × 22 5/16 × 11 1/4 in. (167.8 × 56.7 × 28.6 cm)
other (lower case frame): 15 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (40.3 × 20 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Nathalie Penrose Swetland in memory of William Rex Penrose
Accession Number: 1966.87.18
Geography: Made in Germantown, 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

Gift in 1966 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), 150–153, no. 33, ill

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

tall case clocks

"John Heilig Germantown," painted, on dial

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