Armchair with View of Ithaca Falls1817–182537 3/4 × 21 × 16 1/2"Paint, bronze powder stenciling, and gold leaf on wood, with rush seatGift of Ralph Esmerian2005.8.190bronze powder and gilt, Hitchcock-type, pierced eagle back; painting on rail depicts Ithaca Falls of Fall Creek, Ithaca, NY. Falls and creek LS, mill buildings RS. Similar to 2 paintings in collection of DeWitt Historical Society, Ithaca, NY: oil painting with possible attribution to Henry Walton c. 1831, and a painting misattributed to Jefferson Beardsley c. 1835.1545243363P1.2001.072Chairmaker unidentifiedR.H. RanneyFurniture/FurnishingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.Signed on back rail, gold (yellow?) paint, cursive: RH Ranney/Ithacahttp://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster19786IthacaIthacaUnited StatesNew YorkThree Dimensional WorkseMuseum - Collection HighlightsIthacafurniture
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"Ithaca could boast several chair factories by the 1820s, including that of A.W. Howland in Fall Creek, the area depicted on this chair" (Hollander, exhibition text panel, information provided by Gretchen Sasche, Tomkins County Historian, DeWitt Historical Society, Ithaca, NY, written correspondence to SH August 28, 1996)http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster19786http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster19786http://nodes.emuseum.com/BU1BGBAG/apis/emuseum/network/v1/vocabularies/termMaster19786P1.2001.07218171825 2005 8 19 furniture
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"Ithaca could boast several chair factories by the 1820s, including that of A.W. Howland in Fall Creek, the area depicted on this chair" (Hollander, exhibition text panel, information provided by Gretchen Sasche, Tomkins County Historian, DeWitt Historical Society, Ithaca, NY, written correspondence to SH August 28, 1996)