Map/Print Case (late 1800s): Art, History and Details

Map/Print Case (late 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This unusual piece of furniture was perhaps intended to house musical manuscripts, since lyres are included in the decoration of its hinges. It was probably made in the 1880s, when classicism was exerting itself in American architecture and the related art of furniture design.

Object facts

• Title: Map/Print Case
• Date: late 1800s
• Culture: America, probably New York City, 19th century
• Type: Furniture and woodwork
• Technique: mahogany and maple with bronze hardware
• Dimensions: Overall: 102.2 x 130.8 x 54.6 cm (40 1/4 x 51 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Furniture
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1985.36

Collection credit

Ruthe and Heinz Eppler Endowment Fund and various donors by exchange

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71.

View the collection record

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