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The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director: Being a Large Collection of the Most Elegant and Useful Designs of Houshold Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste: Including a Great Variety of Book-Cases for Libraries or Private Rooms. Commodes, Library and Writing-Tables, Buroes, Breakfast-Tables, Dressing and China-Tables, China-Cases, Hanging-Shelves, Tea-Chests, Trays, Fire-Screens, Chairs, Settees, Sopha's, Beds, Presses and Cloaths-Chests, Pier-Glass Sconces, Slab Frames, Brackets, Candle-Stands, Clock-Cases, Frets, and Other Ornaments. to Which Is Prefixed. a Short Explanation of the Five Orders of Architecture, and Rules of Perspective ; with Proper Directions for Executing the Most Difficult Pieces, the Mouldings Being Exhibited at Large, and the Dimensions of Each Design Specified: the Whole Comprehended in One Hundred
Thomas Chippendale (English, 1718–1779)
1754
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book
Dimensions
Overall: 44.9 x 29 x 4.2 cm (17 11/16 x 11 7/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild
Accession Number2015.80
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description(London: Printed for the author, and sold at his House in St. Martin's-Lane. MDCCLIV. Also by T. Osborne, Bookseller, in Gray's-Inn, 1754)
Provenance19th century, Thomas Bott (possibly the enamel painter; b. about 1828 - d. 1870), Worcester, England. Robinson and Robson (upholsterers), 28 Margaret Street, London. Nathaniel von Rothschild (b. 1836 - d. 1905), Vienna [see note 1]; by descent to his nephew, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 – d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 – d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces and taken to the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (No. 681419-D); 1948, removed from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York [see note 2]; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)
NOTES:
[1] Inventar über die in den Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild'schen Nachlass gehörigen, in dem Palais in Wien, IV. Bezirk, Theresianumgasse Nr. 14 befindliche Kunstgegenstände und Einrichtungsstücke (Vienna, 1906), pp. 451-452, no. 126.
[2] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The contents of their library were taken directly to the Nationalbibliothek, or National Library. This book appears in a 1948 list of books returned from the library to Clarice de Rothschild, kindly provided by Margot Werner of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.
NOTES:
[1] Inventar über die in den Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild'schen Nachlass gehörigen, in dem Palais in Wien, IV. Bezirk, Theresianumgasse Nr. 14 befindliche Kunstgegenstände und Einrichtungsstücke (Vienna, 1906), pp. 451-452, no. 126.
[2] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The contents of their library were taken directly to the Nationalbibliothek, or National Library. This book appears in a 1948 list of books returned from the library to Clarice de Rothschild, kindly provided by Margot Werner of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.