About This Artwork

Artist unknown
Boston, Roxbury, or Salem, Massachusetts

Side Chair, c. 1780/90

Mahogany, white pine, and birch or maple
93.5 x 57 x 50.8 cm (36 11/16 x 22 1/2 x 20 in.)
Inscribed on paper label: "This old carved chair is the property of Geo./W. Price, given to him by Eliza F. P. Pray"
Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust Fund, 1981.123

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Dean T. Lahikainen, Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style, exh. cat. (Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass., 2007), p. 58, figs. 3-13, 3-14.