Gallery 740 - Gothic Revival Library, 1859

Part of The American Wing

Gallery Highlights

  • Side Chair
    Side Chair

    Designed by Alexander Jackson Davis (American, New York 1803–1892 West Orange, New Jersey)

    Date: ca. 1848
    Accession Number: 1979.182

  • Girandole
    Girandole

    William F. Shaw (active 1845–1900)

    Date: after 1852
    Accession Number: 1983.97.2

  • Armchair
    Armchair

    John and Joseph W. Meeks (active ca. 1836–57)

    Date: ca. 1850
    Accession Number: 1985.189

  • Bookcase
    Bookcase

    Date: ca. 1855
    Accession Number: 1977.310.1

  • Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830–1908)

    Date: 1853, cast after 1853
    Accession Number: 1986.52

  • Table
    Table

    Date: ca. 1860
    Accession Number: 1986.78

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This room comes from Morningside, a Gothic Revival home designed by the British-trained architect Frederick Clarke Withers (1828–1901) for Frederick Deming, president of the Union Bank of New York. Withers had recently arrived in the United States in order to work with famed landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing. During the mid-nineteenth century, Gothic Revival was considered an appropriate style for libraries. Less formal than the best parlor, in some houses the library became the sitting room, a place where relaxation and even coziness were encouraged. Most of the furniture in the room is either oak or walnut and was produced in New York City between the early 1850s and the mid-1860s.
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