Looking Glass

1790–1810

Artist unknown (American, 18th–19th century)
New York

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

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Looking Glass
Place: New York (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. 1790–1810
Medium: Gilt gesso, white pine, red pine, silvered glass, and paint
Dimensions: 170.2 × 71.2 × 5.7 cm (67 × 28 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society
Reference Number: 1925.100
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Art Institute of Chicago, “Accessions and Loans,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, no. 6 (Sept. 1925): 75 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Year Book of The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1928), 38.
Meyric R. Rogers, American Interior Design: The Traditions and Development of Domestic Design from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton, 1947), 120, fig. 105 (ill.).
The Antiquarian Society, The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: A Pictorial Review of Notable Objects in Its Collections and Notes on the Society’s Aims and History, Chicago (Chicago: The Antiquarian Society, 1951), n.p., cat. 34 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, “American Art and the Great Seal,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 70, no. 4 (Jul–Aug. 1976): cover, 3–4 (ill.).
Valerie Tvrdik, ed., The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1977), 130, cat. 155 (ill.).
Milo M. Naeve, The Classical Presence in American Art (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), cat. 25 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 119–120, cat. 46 (ill.)

Art Institute of Chicago, The Antiquarian Society: The First One Hundred Years, Apr. 23–June 19, 1977, cat. 155.

Cooper Williams, Inc., Boston, by 1925 [incoming receipt, R2057, Jan. 15, 1925; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Antiquarian Society, Chicago, 1925; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

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