The Magazine Antiques, Vol. LX, No. 6, December, 1951

Title

en_US The Magazine Antiques, Vol. LX, No. 6, December, 1951

Description

en_US David Stockwell

Creator

en_US Stockwell, David See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:02:41Z

en_US 1998-12

en_US 1951

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:02:41Z

Date Issued

en_US 1951

Abstract

en_US This issue has an article Aesop's Fables on Philadelphia Furniture by David Stockwell on 522-25. The article begins from the Howe Highboy with a clear fable carving of FG on the lower center drawer. It relates the carving to early woodcuts in the Caxton tradition. Though the prose correctly speaks of the illustration as belonging to Caxton, the caption for Figure 3 unfortunately presents this Caxton illustration as occurring in an eighteenth-century edition in the Philadelphia Public Library. The article points out that three editions of Aesop's fables were printed in Philadelphia alone in 1777 and six others before the turn of the century. Engravings of Aesop's fables appear in some copies of the 1762 edition of Thomas Chippendale's Director. The article mentions and displays another highboy, a lowboy, a mantel frieze in the Powel Room, and the overmantel panel in the great room at Kenmore. It finds four fables pictured in this panel. Stockwell believes that the unusual and delightful use of the carved fable motif in case furniture is a concept only of the Philadelphia school of craftsmen (525).

Identifier

en_US 4093 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/79419

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The Magazine Antiques

en_US Philadelphia, PA

Subject

en_US NK2438.P5 S76 1951 See all items with this value

en_US Magazine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole