Slant top desk

Date

1755–95

Medium

American black walnut; dustboards, yellow poplar; bottom, southern yellow pine; most drawer sides, backboards, large vertical blocks behind feet, red gum; drawer bottoms, one drawer side, horizontal blocks on base, Atlantic white cedar; front of upper middle and lower right drawers in desk interior, American black cherry; replaced block at right rear foot, eastern white pine

Dimensions

41.4 x 30.7 x 21.1 in. (105.2 x 77.9 x 53.6 cm)

Origin

Delaware Valley

Museum

Yale University Art Gallery

Accession

1930.2174

Credit line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection