Bookcase

Unknown American, American

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about 1829

Wood and glass sliding doors

Overall: 99 × 84 × 19 in. (251.5 × 213.4 × 48.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. William Dexter

F.965.90.17

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Furniture

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Label located on left rear

Provenance

Collected by George Ticknor (1791-1871), Boston, Massachusetts, date unknown; to his daughter, Eliza (Mrs. William) Sullivan Ticknor Dexter (1833-1880), about 1871; to her son, Philip Dexter (1868-1934), about 1880; to his son, William Dexter (1897-1943), about 1934; to his wife, Constance Van Rensselaer Thayer Dexter (1900-1976), 1943; given to Dartmouth College, 1943; catalogued by present collection, 1965.

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