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For reproduction requests or more information, contact DAPC at reference@winterthur.org."},{"label":"Owner's Accession Number","value":"HD 0282.1"},{"label":"Current Owner","value":"Historic Deerfield, Inc."},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Desks and bookcases","Secretary-bookcases","Bookcases","Desks"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Desks","Bookcases"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Article: Helen Comstock, \"Frothingham and Questions of Attributions,\" Antiques 63, no. 6 (June 1953): 502-505.  Article: \"Deerfield: The Furniture: New England: Seventeenth Century to Chippendale,\" Antiques 70, no. 3 (September 1956): 234.  Online resource: Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium Collections Database, http://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?museum=hd&t=objects&type=all&f=&s=HD+0282.1&record=0 (accessed February 2, 2018), HD 0282.1"},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"The piece was owned by the Reverend John Marsh (1742-1821) of Wethersfield, Connecticut who in 1775 married Ann Grant (1748-1838), the daughter of Ann Ellsworth (1712-1783) and Ebenezer Grant (1706-1797), one of the leading citizens of East Windsor, Connecticut. According to family tradition, it was among the furnishings bought by Ebenezer Grant, a prosperous merchant, for their wedding. The piece descended through the Dana family to Helen Dana, the second wife of Richard Henry Dana III (1851-1931) and was auctioned in 1934 in New York after Helen's death. It was bought by Richard's son, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana (with Richard's first wife, Edith Longfellow Dana, daughter of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), who sold the secretary to Ginsberg & Levy in 1947 and from whom the Flynts bought it in 1947."},{"label":"Associated Objects","value":"See DAPC_1966-2263 for a similar piece."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 87 in. (221 cm), Width 44 in. (111.8 cm), Depth 23 in. (58.4 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"Chippendale-style bookcase on slant-front desk. The upper case has a broken, narrow scroll pediment terminating in rosette carvings. There is ogee molding along the top edges of scrolls. Pierced, gilded urn and flame finials are mounted on top of rectangular plinths at the front corners and on a shaped plinth that extends from the center front of the pediment. The front vertical edges of the bookcase have fluted pilasters. The case has paneled, recessed doors with brass keyhole surrounds. The inner edges of the doors' frame elements are serpentine and beveled. The case interior is not visible in photographs. Two sliding candlestands extend from beneath the center of each door.  The lower case has a fall lid that opens up into a flat surface on which to write. The desk interior is not visible in photographs. Below the desk surface, the case is blockfront with curved upper corners. The case has four graduated drawers. The uppermost drawer is flanked by lopers, each of which has a single knob. The lid and drawers each have a shaped escutcheon; the drawers each have two bail pulls with back plates of the same design as the escutcheons. A pendent drop extends from the center front of the case skirt. The case sits on bracket feet."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"7/20/2018"},{"label":"Materials","value":"Mahogany"},{"label":"Style","value":["Chippendale"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Dated by DAPC staff, 1966."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1750 - D:00 M:00 Y:1780"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"Frothingham worked in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Historic Deerfield attributes the piece to an unidentified Boston craftsman, 2018."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts; Charlestown, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Basis of Maker Attribution","value":"Comstock wrote that the piece was \"in all probability [made by] Benjamin Frothingham,\" 1953. Historic Deerfield attributes the piece to an unidentified Boston craftsman, 2018."},{"label":"Maker","value":["Frothingham, Benjamin, Jr., cabinetmaker, 1734-1809"]},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Secretary-bookcase; Secretary and bookcase; Bookcase and secretary; Secretary"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Desk","Bookcase"]},{"label":"Object Use","value":"Case furniture"},{"label":"Category","value":"Furniture"},{"label":"Title","value":"Desk and bookcase"},{"label":"Date Modified","value":"7/20/2018"}],"description":"Desk and bookcase","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/58763291-a08a-450c-8f90-a95444717a14/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Desk and bookcase","height":1500,"width":802,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/58763291-a08a-450c-8f90-a95444717a14/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/58763291-a08a-450c-8f90-a95444717a14","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1500,"width":802},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/58763291-a08a-450c-8f90-a95444717a14/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/58763291-a08a-450c-8f90-a95444717a14/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/58763291-a08a-450c-8f90-a95444717a14/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}