//
For internal use only
Not On Display
Andiron
1750-1790
Category
Metals
Place of Origin
Probably United States; North America
Materials
- Iron
Museum Object Number
2003.0017.001
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
Share Object
Complete Details
Object Number
2003.0017.001
Object Name
Andiron
Category
Metals
Place of Origin
Probably United States; North America
Origin Notes
The creation place was identified as probably America by Fennimore (p.29).
Date
1750-1790
Subject(s)
- African American
- Slavery
Materials
- Iron
Techniques
- Puddle cast
Dimensions (inches)
11.5 (H) x 6.376 (W) x 13.75 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
29.21 (H) x 16.19 (W) x 34.925 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Article: Van Horn, Jennifer. 2021 Dancing in the Flames: Early American Andirons. American Art Journal. 35 (1): 9 - 15.
• Published: p. 9Book: Gevalt, Emelie, et al. 2023 Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North.
• Published: p. 161, fig. 44Book: Dabydeen, David. 1987 Hogarth's Blacks: Images of Blacks in Eighteenth Century English Art.
• Discusses images of blacks in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesBook: Fennimore, Donald L. 2004 Iron at Winterthur.
• Published: pp. 28-29, cat. no. 1.Article: Fennimore, Donald L. 2004 Iron at Winterthur. The Catalogue of Antiques & Fine Arts. Autumn: 199-203.
Article: Fuchs, Ronald W. 1996 "At Elk Ridge Furneis as You See, william Williams He Mad Me": The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Maryland Iron Furnace. Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. XXII (2)
• Discusses slave labor at iron furnacesBook: Honour, Hugh. 1989 The Image of the Black in Western Art: From the American Revolution to World War I. IV.
• Discusses images of blacks in late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuriesBook: Neff, Emily Ballew. 1995 John Singleton Copley in England.
• Discussed images of blacks in Copley's artBook: Peirce, Josephine H. 1951 Fire on the Hearth: The Evolution and Romance of the Heating-Stove.
• Plate 15 similar andironsCatalogue: Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown PA (sales cat.).
• Differently modeled pair of cast iron andirons in form of blacks in waistcoats: May 5, 2012, lot 299, late 19th/early 20th C., attributed to Tozer Engine Co., Columbia SC. "Original" polychrome.