HUCL.8: Tall Case Clock

Identification and Creation

Object Number

HUCL.8

People

Simon Willard, American (1753 - 1848)

Title

Tall Case Clock

Classification

Timepieces

Work Type

clock

Date

1792

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/305456

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Wood and brass

Dimensions

244.5 x 54.3 x 27 cm (96 1/4 x 21 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: S.Willard
• inscription: S. Willard (script)/ In Usum Coll. Harv. (ital. caps)/ Praesidis successorumque Fecit. (all caps) Translation: this clock should serve the President of Harvard College and his successors

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard University Clock Collection, President and Fellows of Harvard College

Object Number

HUCL.8

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Wood case with French feet; brass stop fluting on the quarter columns of the waist with freestanding columns on the bonnet

Publication History

• John Ware Willard, A History of Simon Willard, Inventor and Clockmaker, E.O. Cockayne (Boston, MA, 1911), opp. p. 38
• Richard W. Husher and Walter W. Welch, A Study of Simon Willard's Clocks, Husher and Welch (Nahant, MA, 1980)

Exhibition History

• The Art of Time:Clocks,Watches and other Time Keeping Devices from the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1993 - 01/30/1994

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