id:			155659
accession number:	1990.96
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.96
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:10.507000

Desk and Bookcase , c. 1780. America, Massachusetts, Boston or vicinity. Mahogany and pine, brass hardware, gilding; overall: 241.9 x 106 x 56.5 cm (95 1/4 x 41 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Lawrence Hitchcock 1990.96

title:				Desk and Bookcase 
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creation date:			c. 1780
creation date earliest:		1775
creation date latest:		1785
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creditline:			Bequest of Mrs. Lawrence Hitchcock
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culture:	America, Massachusetts, Boston or vicinity
technique:	mahogany and pine, brass hardware, gilding
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Furniture
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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measurements: Overall: 241.9 x 106 x 56.5 cm (95 1/4 x 41 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Notable Acquisitions
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Notable Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 15, 1991).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Col. Christopher Toppan (1735-1818), Hampton, New Hamsphire; his son Edmund Toppan (1777-1857); his daughter Sarah Jane Parker Toppan (b. 1822) who married Rev. Samuel J. Spalding, Newburyport, Massachusetts; their granddaughter Helen Chapin Hitchcock (Mrs. Lawrence).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hawley, Henry. "Notable Acquisitions." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 78, no. 3 (1991): 63-147.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 80; Mentioned: p. 81
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161319

	Adams, Henry. <em>What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 29, & p. 50 - 52
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IMAGES

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