Tall Case Clock

c. 1750

Movement by Thomas Hughes
London, active 1750–1783
Case attributed to George Glinn (Glenn)
Irish, worked in Boston, mid 18th century
Boston

Status: On View, Gallery 166
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Thomas Hughes (Movement Maker)
Title: Tall Case Clock
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. 1750
Medium: Mahogany and New England white pine
Dimensions: 259.1 × 59.7 × 29.2 cm (102 × 23 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and Walter E. Heller Foundation, and Harold Stuart Endowment
Reference Number: 1990.395
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Henry Bromfield, Harvard, MA (1727-1820); by descent to his daughter, Elizabeth Bromfield (Mrs. Daniel Denison Rogers) (1763-1833); by descent to her daughter, Elizabeth Rogers (Mrs. Henry Slade); by descent to her son, Dr. Daniel Denison Slade (1823/4-1896). Israel Sack, New York, by 1990; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990.

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