Title:
John Townsend : Newport cabinetmaker
JLCTITLE245:
Morrison H. Heckscher ; with the assistance of Lori Zabar.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005?]
Physical Description:
xii, 225 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 32 cm.
ISBN:
9781588391452
9780300107173
General Note:
Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 6-Sept. 25, 2005.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220) and index.
Personal Subject:
Added Corporate Author:
Contents:
Newport furniture: a view over time -- Newport: its place in the history of American furniture -- Eighteenth-century Newport -- The Townsend family in Newport -- Observations on John Townsend's cabinetwork -- John Townsend: a selective catalogue -- Cabriole furniture (cat. nos. 1-15) -- Case furniture: block and shall and flat front (cat. nos. 16-31) -- Stop-fluted furniture (cat. nos. 32-37) -- Federal furniture (cat. nos. 38-48) -- Pictorial parallels: the furniture of John Townsend and his contemporaries -- The Townsend family joiners -- Christopher Townsend's will (1773), Codicil (1768), and inventory (1786) -- John Townsend's will (1805) and inventory (1806) -- John Townsend family furniture.