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Ribband Back Chairs

Artist:
Thomas Chippendale (British, baptised Otley, West Yorkshire 1718–1779 London)
Published in:
London
Date:
1754
Medium:
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash
Dimensions:
sheet: 7 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (19.1 x 33.9 cm)
Classifications:
Drawings, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1972
Accession Number:
1972.581
Not on view
Preparatory drawing for Thomas Chippendale's 'Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director'. Published in reverse as plate XVI in the 1754 and 1755 editions, and renumbered as plate XV in the 1762 edition.

Designs for three chairs, whose backs are constructed from interwoven ribbon motifs and moldings.
Signature: Signed in pen and brown ink at lower left of recto: "Th. Chippendale inv. at Diln"

Inscription: Inscribed in pen and brown ink at top center of recto (in artist's hand): "Ribband back chairs"
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at upper left of recto: "No. 16"
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at bottom center of recto: "Published Accd. to Act of Parliament"
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower right of recto: "M. Davly (?) T."
Vendor: Benjamin Weinreb (London)
Colta Ives, Janet S. Byrne, Mary L. Myers, Suzanne Boorsch, Weston J. Naef, David W. Kiehl, The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1965-1975: Prints, Architecture and Ornament. New York, 1975, p. 203, ill.



Essays
American Furniture, 1730–1790: Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles
American Rococo
English Pattern Books in Eighteenth–Century America
Interior Design in England, 1600–1800
The Lansdowne Dining Room, London

Timelines
Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1800 A.D.

European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Highlights of the Collection

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