Eltonhead Manor Room

1714

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Architect: Unidentified, probably American
Makers: Unidentified, probably American

Eltonhead Manor Room

1714

Physical Qualities Yellow pine, 100 1/2 x 174 3/4 x 193 1/2 in. (255.3 x 443.9 x 491.5 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Owens

Object Number 1925.25.1

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1925; Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Owens, Lutherville, Maryland, by purchase in 1909 or 1910; Mr. and Mrs. James Locke Weems; Breedon transfer recorded at Prince Frederick, Maryland, c. 1900

"BMA News," October 1925, vol. 2, no. 3.

Henry Chandlee Forman, "Early Manors and Plantation Houses of Maryland, Easton: H. C. Forman (privately published), 1934 [identified the house from which the paneling was removed as "Capt. Clark's House" and mentions the sophisticated detail of the woodwork, implying a date of c. 1750.

William Voss Elder, "Maryland Period Rooms: The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore, Maryland: Castro/Hollowpress, 1987, pp. 8-11