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Identification and Creation

Object Number
HUCL.8
People
Simon Willard, American (1753 - 1848)
Title
Tall Case Clock
Classification
Timepieces
Work Type
clock
Date
1792
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305456

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood and brass
Dimensions
244.5 x 54.3 x 27 cm (96 1/4 x 21 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: S.Willard
  • inscription: S. Willard (script)/ In Usum Coll. Harv. (ital. caps)/ Praesidis successorumque Fecit. (all caps) Translation: this clock should serve the President of Harvard College and his successors

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Clock Collection, President and Fellows of Harvard College
Object Number
HUCL.8
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Wood case with French feet; brass stop fluting on the quarter columns of the waist with freestanding columns on the bonnet

Publication History

  • John Ware Willard, A History of Simon Willard, Inventor and Clockmaker, E.O. Cockayne (Boston, MA, 1911), opp. p. 38
  • Richard W. Husher and Walter W. Welch, A Study of Simon Willard's Clocks, Husher and Welch (Nahant, MA, 1980)

Exhibition History

  • The Art of Time:Clocks,Watches and other Time Keeping Devices from the Harvard Collections, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/30/1993 - 01/30/1994

Verification Level

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