John Townsend – Newport Cabinetmaker (Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications) - Hardcover

Heckscher, Morrison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030010717X ISBN 13: 9780300107173

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2005

Synopsis

John Townsend (1733â€"1809) is one of the most revered cabinetmakers of Colonial America. He spent his life in Newport, Rhode Island, leaving a uniquely large body of documented work. This handsome and generously illustrated bookâ€"the first publication ever devoted to Townsendâ€"looks at the life and legacy of this extraordinary cabinetmaker. The book opens with an overview of Newport and a discussion of other important cabinetmakers, including Job and Christopher Townsend, Johnâ€TMs father and uncle. John worked as an apprentice to his father before establishing his own shop when he was twenty-one. The catalogue section of this volume presents new color reproductions, including details of carving and construction and inscriptions and labels, of all thirty-five documented pieces by John Townsend. Comparative works by Christopher, Job, Job Jr., and Edmund Townsend as well as by John Goddard, another significant Newport cabinetmaker of the time, are also...

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Synopsis:

John Townsend (1732-1809) is one of the most revered cabinetmakers of Colonial America. He spent his life in Newport, Rhode Island, leaving a uniquely large body of documented work. This illustrated book, the first publication ever devoted to Townsend, looks at the life and legacy of this extraordinary cabinetmaker.

About the Author:

Morrison Heckscher is Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exhibition schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 6 May to 25 September 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 030010717X
• ISBN 13: 9780300107173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264