2018.297.1: Shield-Back Armchair (one of a pair)
Furniture
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2018.297.1
- People
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Manufactured by George Seddon, Sons, & Shackleton, British (London active c. 1790 - c. 1795 London)
- Title
- Shield-Back Armchair (one of a pair)
- Classification
- Furniture
- Work Type
- chair
- Date
- c. 1790
- Period
- George III (1760-1820)
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/362108
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Painted beech and modern upholstery
- Dimensions
- 97 × 52 × 55 cm (38 3/16 × 20 1/2 × 21 5/8 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Norman Adams, London], sold; to Horace W. Brock, Gloucester, 1991
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Horace W. Brock
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 2018.297.1
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Horace W. Brock, Martin Levy, and Clifford S. Ackley, Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, exh. cat., MFA Publications (Boston, 2009), pp. 69, 153, cat. no. 60, repr. p. 69
Exhibition History
- Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 01/22/2009 - 05/17/2009
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