Details

Title

Side Chair

Artist/Maker

Unidentified American Artist, possibly New York or New Orleans

Date

ca. 1850

Medium

Oak

Dimensions

69 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 19 3/8 inches

Credit

Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection

Accession #

1987.181

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 3, Gallery 304

The Gothic Revival style, famously applied to the Houses of Parliament in London, developed in England during the 1830s in reaction to Neoclassicism, when critics argued that classical design was not as sacred as Gothic. Although never as popular in this country as it was in Europe, Gothic Revival was sometimes promoted for the design of picturesque cottages in the American countryside. The style was considered well-suited for heavy furniture in the front hall, where this chair from a house in Vicksburg, Mississippi, once stood.

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