John and Hugh Finlay and Francis Guy
Armchair with a view of Bolton
1802-1804
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Maple and ash painted black with gilt and polychrome decoration, 33 3/4 x 22 1/4 x 21 3/4 in. (85.7 x 56.5 x 55.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Lydia Howard de Roth and Nancy H. DeFord Venable in Memory of their Mother, Lydia Howard DeFord; and Purchase Fund
Object Number
1966.26.2
A view of the north front of Bolton, built by the English-born import-export merchant George Grundy, decorates the crest rail of this armchair. Dating to about 1786, the house took the fashionable form of a freestanding villa without wings, following the design ideas of Scottish architect Robert Adam. The house was included on an important map, Warner & Hanna’s Plan of the City and Environs of Baltimore, 1801, an important source for identifying these now-lost villas.
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Katherine Scarborough, Unique Record of Baltimore Mansions, 'The Baltimore Sun,' March 1, 1936, p. 11
Discovering Antiques: The Story of the World of Antiques, Vol. II, p. 136
BMA, 'Baltimore Furniture,' exh. cat. 1947, p. 154-157,
'Antiques,' Vol. XC, No. 3, Sept. 1966, p. 374, repr. 66.26.8
Elder, William Voss. Baltimore Painted Furniture, 1800-1840. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1972, cat no. 3, pages 20, 23.
Luke Beckerdite. American Furniture. London:Chipston Foundation, 2003, p.195, ill.
Sumpter Priddy. American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts 1790-1840. Milwaukee: Chipstone Foundation, 2004, p.52.
Mary Ellen Hayward and Frank R. Shivers, Jr. , 'The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History.' Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, p. 35, ill.
William Voss Elder III and Jayne E. Stokes, American Furniture 1680-1880, Baltimore: BMA, 1987, no. 29, pp. 45-47 [BMA 1966.26.3], no. 39, pp. 59-60 [BMA 1966.26.12], no. 121, pp. 161-163 [BMA 1966.26.13].
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