Looking Glass

Artist unknown (New York)

1790–1810

Medium

Gilt gesso, white pine, red pine, silvered glass, and paint

Classification

Furniture

Dimensions

170.2 × 71.2 × 5.7 cm (67 × 28 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.)

Culture

New York

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of the Americas

Credit line

Gift of the Antiquarian Society

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Neoclassicism
• Furniture
• Landscapes
• Animals
• Birds
• 1700s
• Orange