The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tall clock

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 751

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: [in ink, printed on paper label in upper center of backboard]: MADE BY/JOHN TOWNSEND [in ink, inscribed on paper label in upper center of backboard]: Newport Rhode Island 1789 [engraved on dial name boss]: William/Tomlinson/London [in chalk, on backboard behind movement, a characteristic large Townsend finishing mark]: A (superimposed) M
Provenance

Probably purchased by George Champlin (died 1809), Newport, Rhode Island; his wife's niece Ruth Channing Tenney and her husband Caleb Jewett Tenney, Newport, Rhode Island, 1809; their daughter Elizabeth Tenney Allen, Northampton, Massachusetts, before 1865; her daughter Clara Channing Allen, Northampton, Massachusetts; purchased from her in 1927 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
See also
Who
John Townsend (9)

William Tomlinson (1)
What
Wood (9,287)

Furniture (5,728)

Timepieces (1,121)

Oak (1,094)

Mahogany (976)

Clocks (611)

Cherry (149)

Chestnut (47)

Tall case clocks (47)
Where
North and Central America (83,069)

United States (79,768)

Rhode Island (165)

Newport (72)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (66,646)
In the Museum
American Decorative Arts (11,825)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
John Townsend (1733–1809)

The United States, 1600–1800 A.D.
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