Sofa
- Culture
- English
- Date
- c.1740
- Classification
- Furniture
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- On View, the English Room
- Dimensions
- 44 1/4 x 75 7/8 x 30 1/2 in. (112.4 x 192.7 x 77.5 cm)
- Credit Line
- Funds given by Joseph Pulitzer as a memorial to his wife, Elinor Wickham Pulitzer
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 45:1929
Provenance
by 1904 - 1925
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (d.1925), Thornton Manor, Wirral, England, and The Hill, Hampstead, England [1]
1926/02/09 -
At auction, "The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme, Part One." Anderson Galleries, New York, NY, February 9, 1926, lot no. 49 [2]
- 1929
P. W. French and Company, New York, NY
1929 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from P. W. French and Company [3]
Notes:
[1] Ownership by the 1st Viscount, date and location in inventories per (Wood, Lucy. "The Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery." Liverpool: 2008, v. II, p. 1052). Also per invoice from P. W. French and Company dated October 24, 1929 [SLAM document files]. Also per [Cescinsky, Herbert. "English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century. Volume II." London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1909-11, p. 60].
[2] "The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme, Part One." Anderson Galleries, New York, NY, February 9, 1926, lot no. 49.
[3] Per invoice dated October 24, 1929 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, October 15, 1929.
William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (d.1925), Thornton Manor, Wirral, England, and The Hill, Hampstead, England [1]
1926/02/09 -
At auction, "The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme, Part One." Anderson Galleries, New York, NY, February 9, 1926, lot no. 49 [2]
- 1929
P. W. French and Company, New York, NY
1929 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from P. W. French and Company [3]
Notes:
[1] Ownership by the 1st Viscount, date and location in inventories per (Wood, Lucy. "The Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery." Liverpool: 2008, v. II, p. 1052). Also per invoice from P. W. French and Company dated October 24, 1929 [SLAM document files]. Also per [Cescinsky, Herbert. "English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century. Volume II." London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1909-11, p. 60].
[2] "The Art Collections of the Late Viscount Leverhulme, Part One." Anderson Galleries, New York, NY, February 9, 1926, lot no. 49.
[3] Per invoice dated October 24, 1929 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum, October 15, 1929.
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