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Artist:
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Thomas Hope
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Title:
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Library table
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Date:
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c. 1800
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Medium:
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Painted and gilt wood with canvas top
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Dimensions:
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33 x 55 3/4 x 37 3/4 in. (83.82 x 141.61 x 95.89 cm)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of funds from the Friends of the Institute
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Location:
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Gallery 333
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This library table formed part of the elaborate interior decoration of Thomas Hope's own picture gallery at his London residence on Duchess Street. The table was published in Hope's 1807 Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, which illustrated his highly idiosyncratic neoclassical furniture.
Two paintings now in the Institute's collection once hung in Hope's galleries: Titian's The Temptation of Christ and Vasari's Six Tuscan Poets.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Hope, Thomas
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Role:
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Designer
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Nationality:
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English
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Life Dates:
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English (born Amsterdam), 1769-1831
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Sticker remains of sticker, under side of top 'White & Co., Ltd./Furniture Depositories/Sir Daniel Gooch/Bar
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Classification:
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Furniture
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Creation Place:
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Europe, England, , ,
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Accession #:
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96.32.1a,b
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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