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Chest (Box)
1810-1823
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Elm
- Walnut
- Mahogany
- Brass
- Ink
- Watercolor
- Paper
Museum Object Number
1958.0102.001 A, B
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Object Number
1958.0102.001 A, B
Object Name
Chest (Box)
Category
Furniture
Place of Origin
Philadelphia; Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Date
1810-1823
Subject(s)
- John Fanning Watson
- Penn's Treaty
Materials
- Elm
- Walnut
- Mahogany
- Brass
- Ink
- Watercolor
- Paper
Dimensions (inches)
7.688 (H) x 10.75 (W) x 8.5 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
19.528 (H) x 25.718 (W) x 20.638 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Catalogue: Igoe, Laura Turner & Baker, Joe. 2024 Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories.
• Published: p. 73Thesis: Stoehr, Lois Amorette. 2004 John Fanning Watson: Looking ahead with a backwards glance. M.A. University of Delaware Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
Electronic: Piggush, Yvette. 10//2009 Fancy History: John Fanning Watson's Relic Box. 04/19/2010 http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-01/lessons/07.shtml
Chapter: Stabile, Susan. Biography of a Box: Material Culture and Palimpsest Memory. Book: Tumblety, Joan. 2013 Memory and History: Understanding Memory as Source and Subject.