{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3f3d2d3a-6b1d-4b69-a8a3-f8aa1f71c6c5/manifest","label":"1974-5469","metadata":[{"label":"BFA Number","value":"1974-5469"},{"label":"Source","value":"Decorative Arts Photographic Collection"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Images originally from The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/  Metadata and images digitized from the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection of the Winterthur Library. For reproduction requests or more information, contact DAPC at reference@winterthur.org."},{"label":"Owner's Accession Number","value":"1952-629"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation"},{"label":"Context","value":"Gyles Merrill was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1738/9; he was the great-great-grandson of immigrant Nathaniel Merrill, who had settled in Newbury in 1635. Gyles graduated Harvard in 1759 and received his A.M. in 1762. He served as a pastor of the North Church in Haverhill from 1765 until his death on April 27, 1801. On October 13, 1767, he married Lucy Cushing, the daughter of Rev. James Cushing. Their son James Cushing Merrill was born in Haverhill on September 27, 1784, graduated Harvard in 1807, and received his A.M. in 1870. James lived in Boston, practiced as a lawyer, represented Boston in both branches of the state legislature, and served 17 years as a justice of the Boston Police Court. He also served for 30 years on the Examination Board for Greek at Harvard. He died October 3, 1853."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Desks-on-frames"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Desks"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Exhibition catalog: Catalogue of Furniture, Silver, Pewter, Glass, Ceramics, Paintings, Prints Together with Allied Arts and Crafts of the Period 1636-1836 (Cambridge: Harvard University, 1936), 55, no. 249, pl. 44.  Catalog: Barry A.?áGreenlaw, New England Furniture at Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1974), 112-3, no. 94.  Exhibition catalog: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Paul Revere's Boston: 1735-1818 (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1975), 71, no. 82.  Article: Thomas Hamilton Ormsbee, \"Bible Boxes Were Also Desks,\" American Collector 11, no. 10 (November 1942): 6-7, 11."},{"label":"Exhibition History","value":"Exhibition: Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, July 25-September 21, 1936).  Exhibition: \"Paul Revere's Boston, 1735-1818,\" Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, April 18-October 12, 1975)."},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"The desk was continuously owned in the Merrill family from at least 1755 until the middle of the twentieth century.  Offered for sale by Israel Sack.  In the collection of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1974, 1975."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 51.25 in. (130.2 cm), Width 32.25 in. (81.9 cm), Depth 19.25 in. (48.9 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"A William and Mary-style desk-on-frame constructed of white pine and painted a light blue-gray. The desk has a slanted lid attached to the case with butterfly hinges; the lid folds back to reveal the interior. The lid has a shaped escutcheon keyhole surround and a molded lip along the bottom edge. The unpainted interior of the desk has a large well at the front, with pigeonholes over two small drawers at the back. The frame has ogee molding around the top and a single drawer with oval bail pulls and matching escutcheons for the keyhole and pulls. The legs are double vase-and-ring baluster-turned and are joined by box-form rectangular stretchers. The feet are turned. A flat slide-out shelf, probably added in the early nineteenth century, sits about three-quarters of the way up the legs; it is supported by small lopers with small turned pulls, which sit on rectangular supports which are tenoned into the fronts of the legs. All joints are fastened by nails or pegs; the only dovetails secure the drawer front to the sides.  The escutcheons, pulls, and hinges are original. The desk was originally painted or stained red, although the repaint may date to the eighteenth century. The lopers were replaced in the middle of the twentieth century."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"7/20/2018"},{"label":"Marks, Signatures, and Inscriptions","value":"Ink inscription inside well of desk: [J. Gyles Merrill's Harvard College 1755].  In a different hand inside well of desk: [James C. Merrill's Desk / Harvard College / October 6, 1803].  Inside the lid are scratched a number of later inscriptions copying the style of those above.  Carved on original slide runner: [SM]."},{"label":"Materials","value":"White pine; Paint; Unidentified metal"},{"label":"Style","value":["William and Mary"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Estimated date of 1750 originally made by the Harvard Tercentenary Exhibition.  Date range provided by DAPC staff, 1974, based on the fact that the style of the leg turnings is found on New England furniture dating from the later seventieth century."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1700 - D:00 M:00 Y:1750"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"Place of origin identified as possibly North Shore by Barry Greenlaw in the catalog New England Furniture at Williamsburg, 1974.  Place of origin identified as possibly Cambridge by Brock Jobe, 2015."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Cambridge, Massachusetts; Essex County, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Fall-front desk; Bureau-cabinet; Drop-front desk; Straight-front desk; Drop-front cabinet"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Desk"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Case furniture"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Desk-on-frame"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"7/20/2018"}],"description":"Desk-on-frame","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3f3d2d3a-6b1d-4b69-a8a3-f8aa1f71c6c5/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1974-5469-001","height":1500,"width":1154,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/77e157d4-9e99-4d9a-90c3-7e11f95be54a/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/77e157d4-9e99-4d9a-90c3-7e11f95be54a","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1500,"width":1154},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3f3d2d3a-6b1d-4b69-a8a3-f8aa1f71c6c5/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/77e157d4-9e99-4d9a-90c3-7e11f95be54a/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3f3d2d3a-6b1d-4b69-a8a3-f8aa1f71c6c5/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1974-5469-002","height":1500,"width":1193,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f26223b4-707e-49c7-9719-528629e2338f/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f26223b4-707e-49c7-9719-528629e2338f","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":1500,"width":1193},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/3f3d2d3a-6b1d-4b69-a8a3-f8aa1f71c6c5/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f26223b4-707e-49c7-9719-528629e2338f/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/77e157d4-9e99-4d9a-90c3-7e11f95be54a/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}