America 18th Century: Late Colonial

Georgian and Federal

Boston, 1720-40

Map of Newport, RI, 1777

Philadelphia, c. 1700

LATE COLONIAL, 1720-1790

Georgian

Queen Anne & Chippendale

Period: Late Colonial Style: Queen Anne and Chippendale

James Gibbs, A Book of Architecture Containing Designs of Buildings and Ornaments, 1728, London

From Palladio’s Four Books of Architecture

Redwood Library, Newport, RI, Peter Harrison, 1747

Hunter House, Newport, RI, mid 18th c., Georgian architecture

North East Parlor, Hunter House

Rhode Island Chippendale Sofa, c. 1785

Queen Anne Style in America

(1730 – 1760)

Philadelphia Queen Anne chairs

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Sculptural formCurved side railsShapely splat and voidsUnbroken seat railShapely legs, slim ankles

American Wing Chair – Queen Anne and Chippendale

Scroll-Topped or Bonnet-Topped Highboys Queen Anne

Closed BonnetOpen Bonnet

Flat-top Queen Anne Highboys

Late Georgian or Chippendale Interiors in America

1760 – 1790

Colden House, New York, Woodwork from 1767

Powel Room, Philadelphia, 1765-1771,

American Late Georgian, Currently at the Metropolitan

Port Royal Parlor, Philiadephia, currently at Winterthur

Chinese Parlor, currently at Winterthur

Governor’s Council Chamber, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA after 1753

Marlborough-leg Armchair, Thomas Affleck, c. 1766

American Chippendale-Style Furniture

1755-1790

John Caldwalader and his family, 1772, C W Peal

Wing Chair and Card Table, Thomas Affleck, 1770-71

Thomas Affleck

(for Cadwalader house)

Side Chair, Hairy-Paw Foot, Benjamin Randolph,

Philadelphia, PA, for John Cadwaleder, c. 1770

Camelback or Serpentine-back

Scroll Arms

Corner Chair

Chippendale Lowboy

Chippendale Highboys

Chippendale carved mahogany Highboy, attr.

Thomas Affleck, Philadelphia, 1765-1775

Two Highboys, Philadelphia

Block-front Furniture, Goddard and Townsend

families, Newport, RI, second half 18th c.

Block-front, Desk and Bookcase,

Newport, RI, 1760-90

Goddard and Townsend families

Chippendale

Newport cut-back talons

Serpentine-Front Bombe Chest of Drawers, Boston, 1770-95

Chest-on-Chest, (Transitional to Federal Style)

American Federal (Neoclassical)

1780’s – 1815

Nicholas-Pierce House, Samuel McIntire, Salem Mass., 1782, Late Georgian Early Federal

Gardner-Pingree House, 1804-1805, Salem, MA, Samuel McIntire

Gardner-Pingree House, Samuel McIntire

Harrison Gray Otis House, Charles Bulfinch, Boston, MA

The Stair hall and Dining Room at Otis House, Boston, MA

Mount Vernon

George Washington

Woodlawn Plantation, Mount Vernon, William Thornton, c.1800

Monticello

Thomas Jefferson

Rotunda, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Thomas Jefferson

Federal Interiors and Furniture

Hepplewhite and Sheraton Styles

Hepplewhite

Sheraton

Sideboards

Serpentine-front

Sheraton

Constitution MirrorVariations on Sheraton