Chair
- Object Name:
- Chair
- Object ID:
- 2013.015
- Creator:
- Wilder, Joseph (1787-1825)
Furniture Maker - Place of Origin:
- New Ipswich, NH
- Date:
- circa 1820
- Description:
- Side Chair. Attributed to Joseph Wilder (1787-1825), New Ipswich, NH, Originally owned by Isaac Brooks (1757-1841) of Amherst, NH; c. 1820. Red painted body with pine plank seat, stepped crest rail, seven round back spindles, and bamboo turned legs and stretchers. Painted and decorated overall with neoclassical motif flowers, leaves, and scrolls. Branded "I. BROOKS" twice on bottom of plank seat. "This chair belongs to / Marion L. Dodge. / It was purchased by / Mrs. Locke at Isaac / Dodge auction and / given by her to my / mother, Viola R. Dodge." written in ink on paper label attached to bottom of seat.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-32.8 W-18.75 D-19 inches
- Provenance:
- The chair was purchased by Isaac Brooks (1757-1841) of Amherst, NH, around 1820 and descended in the family to his grandson, Isaac Brooks Dodge (1828-1905) of Amherst. Isaac Brooks was a school teacher, Registrar of Deeds for Hillsborough County, and the uncle of future President Franklin Pierce. The Society also owns portraits of Isaac and Abigail (Kendrick) Brooks, and their children Luther Dana Brooks and Abigail Brooks Dodge by Zedekiah Belknap, given by Isaac Brooks Dodge prior to his death. The chair was purchased at Isaac Brooks Dodge's estate auction by author Emma Perkins Boylston Locke (1855-1932) and given to Viola R. Dodge (1857-1922) and then descended to her daughter Marion L. Dodge (1892-1954). New Hampshire Historical Society board member and Currier Museum of Art Director Charles Buckley of Mont Vernon, NH, purchased it from the estate of Marion L. Dodge.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Purchase
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