Traveling Desk

1800–15

Artist unknown (American, 19th century)
Boston

Status: On View, Gallery 168
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Traveling Desk
Place: Boston (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1800–1815
Medium: Mahogany, satinwood, and brass
Dimensions: 16.5 × 36.8 × 23.2 cm (6 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Edna F. Graham Fund; Marshall Field Endowment
Reference Number: 1988.53
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American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. VI, p. 1682, no. 4782 (ill.).
Robert D. Mussey Jr., The Furniture Masterworks of John and Thomas Seymour (Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum, 2003), 445.

Mary Arabella Calkins Prescott (1796–1888), by 1888. With Israel Sack, Inc., New York, by 1988; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

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