Map/Print Case
late 1800s
- Medium
- mahogany and maple with bronze hardware
- Classification
- Furniture and woodwork
- Dimensions
- Overall: 102.2 x 130.8 x 54.6 cm (40 1/4 x 51 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- America, probably New York City, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Ruthe and Heinz Eppler Endowment Fund and various donors by exchange
- 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 Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This unusual piece of furniture was perhaps intended to house musical manuscripts, since lyres are included in the decoration of its hinges. It was probably made in the 1880s, when classicism was exerting itself in American architecture and the related art of furniture design.
