Cleveland Museum of Art
The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director
Thomas ChippendaleLinkedCulture matchlcp-437bd2dc7379
- Date
- 1762
- Medium
- Paper, leather
- Culture
- Britain
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 351227
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Through his designs for furniture and architectural elements, Thomas Chippendale became one of the most influential tastemakers of the 1700s. He published three editions of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director (1754, 1755, and 1762), which sold widely in Britain, Ireland, and America. This rare French version of the third edition demonstrates his effort to spread his designs for both naturalistic and neoclassical decoration even wider across Europe. Fewer than fifteen copies, including this one, of the French edition of Thomas Chippendale’s famous book of designs, are known to exist.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Philip A. Uhde in memory of his father, Frederick C. Uhde
- Provenance
- ?-2014: Private Collection, London, 2014, sold to (Jeremy Garfield-Davies, London) for Frederick C. Uhde, London | Frederick C. Uhde, London, by descent to his wife, Mrs. Kathy Uhde | ?-2019: Mrs. Kathy Uhde, 2019, given to Philip Uhde, FL, USA | 2019: Philip A. Uhde, 2019, consigned to (Jeremy Garfield-Davis, London) | 2019: (Jeremy Garfield-Davies, London, 2019, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | 2020-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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