Secretary-bookcase (bookcase)

Object number
W 1960.2.1
Creator
Townsend-Goddard
Date
circa 1760
Description
Mahogany bookcase on desk with three shelf cupboard bookcase; slant-top desk; eight block front drawers, four pigeonholes and one door inside desk; four drawers outside desk; brass fixtures on outer drawers differ between top two drawers and bottom two drawers and are replacements; closed bonnet at top of bookcase with a hole for a finial; three shell design. This is a Hazard family desk.
Materials
wood
Credit Line
Gift from Peyton Hazard
Object Type
secretary-bookcases (bookcases)
Subjects
Goddard and Townsend
Hazard Family
Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House
Related People & Organizations
Hazard, Peyton (associated)