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Cylinder Desk and Bookcase

Artist unknown · 1800–10

Provenance

Ownership history

Goodwin and Reed families, Newburyport, MA; with Ginsburg and Levy, Inc., New York, N.Y., by 1957; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 145 (ill.) as Cylinder Fall Desk and Bookcase.

Literature

"Annual Report 1957–1958", The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 52, 3 (October, 1958), 77 (ill.).
Barbara Wriston, "American Furniture in the Collection", The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, v. 57, 1963, 26–33 (ill.).
Myeric R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques 74, 1 (July 1958), 54 (ill.).
Vernon C. Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour (Boston, Special Publications, 1959), 132–33 (ill.).
Barbara Wriston, “American Furniture in the Collection,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, 1 (Spring 1963), 26–33 (ill.).
The Antiquarian Society of The Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years (Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), no. 145.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 120–22, no. 47.

Comparables

[Group of 42 Stereograph Views From the London Stereoscopic Company, 1860-1870, Many Hand-Colored to Illustrate Books]