id: 380460 accession number: 1916.313.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.313.b updated: 2023-01-12 02:11:28.915000 Note Board, c. 1770. England, 18th century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.313.b title: Note Board title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1770 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1775 current location: 203B British Painting and Decorative Arts creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: England, 18th century technique: department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Miscellaneous find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020) opening date: 2020-06-30T04:00:00 British Gallery Reinstallation (June 2020). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Jeptha Homer Wade II [1857-1926] and Ellen Garretson Wade [1859-1917], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1916 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1916- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Stored inside this case are grooming and writing instruments such as a clasp knife, scissors, an ivory tablet, a pencil, a threading needle used for lacing corsets, and an ear scoop. digital description: Luxurious personal objects were an essential part of a privileged wardrobe during the 1700s and early 1800s, emphasizing their owner’s refinement and wealth. Especially popular were étuis, small ornamented cases containing miniature sewing, writing, or grooming implements that hung at a woman’s waist from an ornate clasp, known as a chatelaine. Despite its glittering surface, this small expensive set disguised a system based on the labor and suffering of enslaved or indentured people, whether in gold and stone mines or the shop where it was made. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.313.b/1916.313.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.313.b/1916.313.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.313.b/1916.313.b_full.tif