Side Chair (c. 1760): Art, History and Details

Side Chair (c. 1760) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

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

Chairs with their splats pierced with a decorative monogram are rare in eighteenth-century English furniture, and this chair is part of a unique American set. The initials "R.M.L." are those of Robert (1718–1775) and Margaret Beekman (1724–1800) Livingston of Clemont, a house on the Hudson River north of New York City.

Object facts

• Title: Side Chair
• Date: c. 1760
• Culture: America, New York
• Type: Furniture and woodwork
• Technique: mahogany
• Dimensions: Overall: 105.4 x 57.2 x 54.3 cm (41 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.)
• Collection: Furniture
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1988.32

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “The Year in Review for 1988.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (February 1989): 30–75.
• Hawley, Henry. “A Livingston Chair.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 9 (November 1989): 326–331.

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