Unknown
(Maker)
Walnut, the seat covered in linen canvas embroidered with a landscape within a floral border embroidered in polychrome wools and cream silk in tent stitch
History note: Unknown before Miss Grace Clarke; bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum with a life interest to Mrs Charles Beveridge
Miss Grace Clarke Bequest, 1940
Depth: 43.8 cm
Height: 44.5 cm
Width: 55.2 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950-08)
by
Clarke, Grace F., Miss
1720-1740
George I
George II
Circa
1720
CE
-
Circa
1740
CE
Embroidery composed of silk thread wool Frame composed of walnut Cover composed of canvas
Accession number: M.13-1950
Primary reference Number: 95994
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Stool"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95994 Accessed: 2022-07-05 10:54:26
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