About This Artwork
Artist unknown
Boston, Massachusetts
Cylinder Desk and Bookcase1800/1810
Mahogany, birch, and maple veneers
196.8 x 91.2 x 55.9 cm (78 1/2 x 35 7/8 x 22 in.)
Inscriptions: lower case, on underside of proper left short drawer bottom in script: "R"; on underside of proper right short drawer bottom in script--both in pencil:"L"; on interior of drawer bottom on long drawer in chalk:"FOR BOOKS"
Jessie Spalding Landon Fund, 1957.453
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, Annual Report 1957–1958 52, 3 (Oct. 1955), p. 77 (ill.).
M.R. Rogers, “American Decorative Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Antiques 74, 1 (July 1958), p. 54 (ill.).
Vernon C. Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour (Boston, Special Publications, 1959), pp. 132–33 (ill.).
Barbara Wriston, “American Furniture in the Collection,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 57, 1 (Spring 1963), p. 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), pp. 120-22, no. 47.
Ownership History
Goodwin and Reed families, Newburyport, Mass., (?); Gensburg and Levy, Inc., New York, 1957; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1957.