Desk and Bookcase (Secretary)
Unknown maker (possibly New Hampshire), American, 18th century
about 1790
Maple, birch, white pint, poplar, brass
Overall: 83 1/4 × 40 5/8 × 22 in. (211.5 × 103.2 × 55.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. Katherine Fall Richmond
F.955.144
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Furniture: Storage
Research Area
Decorative Arts
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in the small left-hand drawer of the desk: Clement Hayes
Exhibition History
American Decorative Arts at Dartmouth, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 10-March 1, 1981.
Publication History
Margaret J. Moody, American Decorative Arts at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: The Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1981, page 14.
Margaret J. Moody, "American furniture at Dartmouth College", The Magazine ANTIQUES: New York, August 1981, pp. 326-333, ill. pl. I.
Provenance
Peter Hayes (1688-1757), in Dover, Massachusetts; by descent to Chester Hayes, North Berwick, Maine; Hammond Vinton Hayes (grandson of Judge William Allen Hayes, who married Dartmouth President Nathan Lord's (1792-1870) sister), about 1910s-1920s; given to Mrs. Katherine Fall Richmond (sister of Henry Clinton Fall, Class of 1874), in 1946; given to the present collection, 1955.
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