The earliest furniture that can be attributed w ith any assurance to W illiamsburg is a group related to the Speaker’s chair made for the Capitol and used there until the legislature moved to Richmond in 1780 (fig. 7). This group of furniture appears to belong principally to the decade of the 1730s. From a […]
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The Furniture of Williamsburg
Figure 47 When Williamsburg became the capital of Virginia in 1699, it quickly assumed an important role in many phases of life there. As the capital of the wealthiest and most populated of the thirteen colonies, it served not only as a political focal point, hut as the dominant cultural center as well. […]
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
During the past two decades several people have influenced and contributed greatly to the development of the analytical and typological approach I have taken in this book. Although I never met the late Dr. Torsten Lcnk, his work The Flintlock: its origin and development has served as a monument of inspiration. Likewise, Thoughts on the […]
R. PETER MOOZ
Director Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Eighteenth-century Williamsburg and its environs have been the subject for more than fifty years of one of the most intensive investigations ever conducted into a relatively small place over a comparatively short period of time. Researchers—architects, archaeologists, craftsmen, curators, to name but a few —have approached it from innumerable […]
the Virginia Museum
This book is the culmination of a two-part project undertaken jointly by the Virginia Museum and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Beginning with the seminal concept—the need to underscore the importance of the decorative arts in American culture—and proceeding w ith the idea that an exhibition and catalog of the fine products of Virginia’s colonial cabinetmakers […]