id: 155661 accession number: 1990.96.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.96.b updated: 2025-02-09 04:43:39.557000 Bookcase Section of a 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.b title: Bookcase Section of a Desk and Bookcase title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1780 creation date earliest: 1775 creation date latest: 1785 current location: creditline: Bequest of Mrs. Lawrence Hitchcock copyright: --- culture: America, Massachusetts, Boston or vicinity technique: mahogany and pine, brass hardware, gilding department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Furniture type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 241.9 x 106 x 56.5 cm (95 1/4 x 41 3/4 x 22 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- 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). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 29, & p. 50 - 52 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.96.b/1990.96.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.96.b/1990.96.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1990.96.b/1990.96.b_full.tif