id: 150521 accession number: 1981.75 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.75 updated: 2022-01-04 16:55:47.514000 Work Table, 1800-1825. America, Massachusetts, Boston, 19th century. Maple, brass hardware; overall: 69.9 x 51.5 x 40 cm (27 1/2 x 20 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Elizabeth Bartol 1981.75 title: Work Table title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1800-1825 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1825 current location: creditline: Gift of Miss Elizabeth Bartol copyright: --- culture: America, Massachusetts, Boston, 19th century technique: maple, brass hardware department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Furniture type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 69.9 x 51.5 x 40 cm (27 1/2 x 20 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1981 opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Miss Elizabeth Howard Bartol, Boston. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Needlework typically occupied several hours of a well-to-do woman's day. Worktables are compact, lightweight, and therefore portable. Casters permitted one to move the table around a room and to reposition it easily for sewing or writing. The top drawer of this example was designed to hold writing equipment and contains a writing tablet that could be placed at a convenient slant. The second drawer is divided into compartment for sewing equipment. Needlework was stored in a bag below, accessible by pulling its frame out of one of the table's shorter sides. This simple, small table with its slender, tapered legs is decorated with painted landscapes almost certainly copied from engravings. From about 1800-1825 furniture decoration of this kind was taught in schools for proper young ladies of New England. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.75/1981.75_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.75/1981.75_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.75/1981.75_full.tif