On View
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Artist
William Munroe Sr.
1778 - 1861
Artist
Nathaniel Munroe
1777 - 1861
Date1805 - 1810
Terms
- Eight-day Clocks
- Glass
- Brass
- Iron
- Steel
- Mahogany
- Pine
- Paint
- Concord (Massachusetts)
Dimensions225.89 × 50.76 × 25.38 cm (88 15/16 × 20 × 10 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Wesley P. Wilmot (2001)
Object number2001.018
DescriptionEight day clock. Mahogany, mahogany veneer, white pine; brass, steel, painted iron, glass. Case attributed to William Munroe (1778-1861). Eight-day clock in typical veneered and line-inlaid Roxbury-type case. The painted dial looks like a Boston dial. The movement has the wide-flanged lifting piece typical of Munroe movements, and is nearly identical to the movement in the Daniel Munroe eight day clock, 1995.17. Construction details, like the four-part glue blocking in the front corners of the case and the dadoed vertical foot element, are distinctive and identical to 1995.17. This clock is typical of hundreds of clocks made by Nathaniel Munroe in partnership with his brother Daniel on Concord’s Milldam from 1798 until he moved to Baltimore in 1817.
Collections
- Timepieces and Scientific Instruments
