Mantel

1. Commissioned by Elizabeth Derby West (1762–1814), Danvers (now Peabody), MA, for her estate Oak Hill, 1813 [Elizabeth was married to Captain Nathaniel West Sr. (1756–1851) until they divorced in 1806, at which time Elizabeth assumed sole ownership Oak Hill as part of their divorce settlement]; bequeathed to her three daughters Martha Derby West (1787–1851), Elizabeth (Eliza) West Lander (1790–1849), and Sarah Derby West (1797–1819), 1814 [upon Sarah’s death in 1814, Nathaniel West Sr. regained 1/3 ownership of Oak Hill and its contents, and upon Elizabeth West Lander’s death in 1849, her share passed by descent to her husband Edward Lander (1787–1862), who then transferred his share of Oak Hill to his father-in-law Nathaniel West Sr. in 1849]; Captain Nathaniel West Sr., Danvers (now Peabody), MA, 1849; sold with the Oak Hill property to Elizabeth Leavitt Rogers (born Pickman), 1850; to Richard Saltsonstall Rogers, William Dudley Pickman, and William Crowninshield Rogers (Trustees for Dudley Pickman Rogers, George Willoughby Rogers, and Elizabeth Pickman Rogers), 1853; to George Willoughby Rogers and Elizabeth Pickman Rogers, 1874; to William Crowninshield Endicott and Richard Dennison Rogers (Trustees for George and Elizabeth Pickman Rogers [Mrs. Alfred John Pound]), 1875; to Elizabeth Putnam Rogers (Mrs. Jacob Crowninshield Rogers), 1877; removed from Oak Hill and transferred to The Lindens estate, Danvers, MA, 1878; sold to George Maurice Morris (1889–1954) and Miriam Hubbard Morris (1892–1982), Danvers, MA, and Washington, DC, 1934 [Mr. and Mrs. Morris relocated The Lindens estate and its contents from Danvers to 2401 Kalorama Road, Washington, DC, in 1937]; mantel sold to an unknown buyer, by 1951 [according to The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, 1977]. With Edwin Jackson, Inc., New York, 1951; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1951.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 231.

• F. Kimball, "Furniture Carvings by Samuel McIntire," Antiques Vol. 38 No. 5 (November, 1930), 389 (ill.).
• M.M. Swan, "McIntire: Check and Countercheck," Antiques Vol. 21 No. 2 (February, 1932), 86 (ill.).
• Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury (Framingham, MA, Old America Company, 1933), Vol. 3, 21 (ill.).
• F. Kimball, Mr. Samuel Mcintire: The Architect of Salem (The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1940), 96–98 (ill.).
• The Greater Chicago Antiques Show and Sale Presented by the North Shore Junior Board and Northwestern University Settlement, Inc., Mar–Apr. 1955, cover (ill.).
• M.R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques Vol. 74 No. 1 (July 1958), 53 (ill.).
• D.A. Fales, "The Furniture of McIntire," in Samuel McIntire: A Bicentennial Symposium, (B.W. Labaree, ed., The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1957), 61 (ill.).

Pair of Side Chairs

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Card Table

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Frederick Douglass

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La Maison du Saumon, Chartres, from Vingt Lithographies du Vieux Paris

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Conflagration of the Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Art Institute of Chicago

The Early Ploughman

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Resurrection of Christ

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Old Tower at Avignon

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