Art Institute of Chicago
Fireboard
Possibly "Stimp" (active c. 1820)LinkedCulture matchlcp-2e9fc545f92b
- Date
- c. 1820
- Medium
- Oil on pine panel
- Culture
- Southbury
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 208078
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The fireplace and hearth served as the center of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century American homes. In larger houses that had fireplaces in more than one room, they were often "dressed up" with paintings hung above the mantel and fireboards. The latter were especially common during the summer months, when they were utilized to beautify the gaping hole of the unused fireplace. This fireboard was painted right around 1820, when John Moseley completed the construction of a house on Main Street North in Southbury, Connecticut.
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- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society; Quinn E. Delaney Fund; purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Herbert A. Vance, Charles C. Haffner III, and Jan Pavlovic
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- Object type
- AAT300037335
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