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Details
Creator Smither, James engraver.
Title Benjn. Randolph cabinet maker, at the golden eagle in Chesnut Street between Third and Fourth Streets, Philadelphia : [graphic] Makes all sorts of cabinet & chair work. Likewise carving, gildings &c. performed in the Chinese and modern tastes. / I. Smither, sculpt. Philada.
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1769
Date [1769]
Physical Description 1 print : engraving ; 24 x 19 cm. (9.25 x 7.25 in.)
Description Advertisement with a central text area surmounted by a large eagle and surrounded by an elaborate ornamental border containing images of Chippendale-style furniture including chairs, desks, fire screens, stools, a table, a sofa, a bed and a tall case clock, and architectural fragments including the entrance gate to Randolph's "ware room," columns and cornices.
Notes Reproduced and described in Edwin Wolf, 2nd and Marie Elena Korey, eds. Quarter of a Millennium (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1981) entry #172.
LCP exhibit catalogue: Made in America #7.
Reproduced and described in Fiske Kimball, "The Sources of the Philadelphia Chippendale II. Benjamin Randolph's Trade Card," Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Musuem 23 (October 1927), 4-8.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Cabinetmaking -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Furniture, Early American.
Genre Engravings -- 1760-1770.
Advertisements -- 1760-1770.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Ph Pr - 11 x 14 - Advertisement - Randolph [13080.Q]
Accession number 13080.Q [P.9178.6]

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