{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f095d81f-fccf-4ec8-875e-ee5f17664aca/manifest","label":"1969-0425","metadata":[{"label":"BFA Number","value":"1969-0425"},{"label":"Source","value":"Decorative Arts Photographic Collection"},{"label":"Rights","value":"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":"Current Owner","value":"Unknown"},{"label":"Context","value":"Note from DAPC record, March 1969: \"No Enoch Brown appears in Boston's first directory (1789); Brown, William & Josiah, store, Orange St. are listed. In the 1796 directory, they are again listed with notation that they deal in \"West-India goods.\" I suspect that Enoch Brown may have been a storekeeper rather than a cabinetmaker. A search of directories for 1800, 1805 listed many 'Browns' as merchants and one cabinetmaker in 1805 - Asahel brown, no. 67 Orange Street. Listed in the 1810 Directory is Brown (enoch) & Clark (Oliver), shopkeepers, 24 Cornhill. Since this date seems to fit more nearly the object and Enoch is indicated as a storekeeper rather than a cabinetmaker. I attribute the sale of this piece to him and do not believe he was its maker. The date seems early for this piece.\" (JJE)"},{"label":"Subjects (AAT)","value":["Desks and bookcases","Secretary-bookcases","Bookcases","Desks"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Desks","Bookcases"]},{"label":"Bibliography","value":"Auction catalog: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, Early American Furniture (May 9-10, 1930), sale 3849, lot 369.  Advertisement: \"Warren Western Creamer,\"?áAntiquarian 14, no. 3 (March 1930): 88."},{"label":"Exhibition History","value":"Exhibition: Maine Dealers Antiques Exposition (Portland, OR, 1930)"},{"label":"History of Ownership","value":"Prior to 1930, Warren Western Creamer obtained the object from W.G. Reed, who states in an affidavit that the secretary was formerly owned by his grandfather Col. I.G. Reed of Waldoboro, Maine, and has descended in the family. Sold in the Creamer Sale (1930), American Art Galleries. Sale 3849, lot 369."},{"label":"Associated Objects","value":"Similar to DAPC_1970-0422. DAPC number 1969-0455 was erroneously assigned to this piece."},{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Height 71 in. (180.3 cm), Width 40.5 in. (102.9 cm)"},{"label":"Description","value":"Federal-style desk and bookcase made primarily with mahogany and mahogany and satinwood veneers and with sycamore secondary wood.  The upper bookcase is surmounted by a pediment; the sides are concave and bolstered at the corners by wood plinths and the front has a central, veneered tablet framed in satinwood and string inlay, flanked by sloped brackets. Decorative molding lines the base of the pediment. The frame elements of the bookcase doors have a wide band of satinwood veneer that matches the lightwood on the pediment surrounded by a narrow band of mahogany veneer. On the right-hand side of the left door and left-hand side of the right door are keyholes with oval plates. The panes of glass on the doors create a mixture of geometric shapes: a central hexagon flanked by rectangles, pentagons above and below the rectangles and above and below the hexagon, and in each corner is a square. The hinged doors open to reveal two shelves below six or seven pigeonholes. Rounded, stepped moldings are applied along the lower front and side edges of the bookcase  The lower case is deeper than the bookcase. A board hinged to the front edge of the case top unfolds to provide a writing surface. The case has four drawers; the top drawer is narrower and is flanked by knobbed lopers. The drawer fronts are veneered in satinwood with mahogany veneer borders. The edges of the drawers are beaded. All four drawers have two bail pulls with oval back plates and a single keyhole surround. Along the base is banding in mahogany and satinwood inlay. The skirt is cyma-curved with spurs. The case rests on bracket feet."},{"label":"Date Digitized","value":"7/20/2018"},{"label":"Marks, Signatures, and Inscriptions","value":"Printed, paper billhead inside the top drawer: [Bought at the STORE of / ENOCH BROWN, / North Side of FANEUIL-HALL MARKET, / BOSTON. November 5, 1783]."},{"label":"Materials","value":"Mahogany; Satinwood; Sycamore"},{"label":"Style","value":["Federal"]},{"label":"Basis of Date","value":"Based on date of November 5, 1783 inscribed on billhead accompanying this object. However, former DAPC cataloger, JJE suggests the attributed date is too early for the design of the object."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1783"},{"label":"Basis of Origin","value":"The billhead in the top drawer lists Brown's place of business as north of Faneuil Hall Market in Boston."},{"label":"Place of Origin","value":"Boston, Massachusetts"},{"label":"Basis of Maker Attribution","value":"A billhead attached to the inside of the top drawer reads [Bought at the STORE of / ENOCH BROWN / ...]. The printed location and inscribed date on the label match newspaper accounts of merchant Enoch Brown, who died in 1784."},{"label":"Maker","value":["Brown, Enoch, merchant, 1740-1784, active about 1770-1784"]},{"label":"Other Name","value":"Secretary-bookcase; Secretary and bookcase; Bookcase and secretary; Secretary"},{"label":"Object Type","value":["Bookcase","Desk"]},{"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/f095d81f-fccf-4ec8-875e-ee5f17664aca/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1969-0425-001_overall","height":1500,"width":949,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/407f4c5a-913f-4c5a-8fe0-d2f277b152be/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/407f4c5a-913f-4c5a-8fe0-d2f277b152be","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":1500,"width":949},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f095d81f-fccf-4ec8-875e-ee5f17664aca/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/407f4c5a-913f-4c5a-8fe0-d2f277b152be/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f095d81f-fccf-4ec8-875e-ee5f17664aca/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"dapc_1969-0425-002_label","height":733,"width":1500,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/93e8fc6d-b17e-46ed-b0de-dbca6326323e/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/93e8fc6d-b17e-46ed-b0de-dbca6326323e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":733,"width":1500},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f095d81f-fccf-4ec8-875e-ee5f17664aca/canvas/_2","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/93e8fc6d-b17e-46ed-b0de-dbca6326323e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/407f4c5a-913f-4c5a-8fe0-d2f277b152be/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}