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Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Empire-style gondola chair. Side stiles and crest rail are joined to appear as one sweeping piece, bottom edge of crest rail cut out to form scrolls. Splat is vase-shaped - no shoe where joined to seat rail. Serpentine front seat rail with protruding convex molding on bottom edge, front cabriole legs perpendicular to rail. Back-curved saber legs angle out from body. Slip sea...
Chair, used in law office of Stephen Trigg Logan and Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned seat side chair in Hitchcock style, but no fancy stenciling. Slightly flared seat, rolled front seat rail, top back slat rolled at end, uprights round but flattened, and incised below flattened part. Legs round, front legs have turned bands in sets of three, and further down in sets of two, tapering to very small bun feet. Round stretchers, front stretcher turned with ...
Easy chair, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Upholstered Gentlemen's balloon-backed chair. Victorian Rococco style. Exposed walnut trim, medium stain. Chair back crest carved with two closed buds hanging upside-down, flanked by open roses, leaves and scrolls. Upholstered arm rests. Fabric is blue silk brocade with a raised, swirled floral pattern faded to a gold color. Back front has two horizontal rows of deep-buttone...
Child's chair, owned by Abraham Lincoln, used by his fourth son, Thomas (Tad)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Low small Empire-style caned seat side chair. Modified shield-shaped seat, two back splats w/outlined carved, bowed back legs. Slightly cyma curved front legs, front stretcher curved and flat, two round stretchers at each side, round stretcher at back. H 26" x W 15" x D 13 1/2".
Untitled
Image | 1957 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Malian
Chair of power
Image | 1301-1900 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Swahili
Mrs. Jefferson, Fort Scott
Image | 1949 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: American
Edmund Burke
Image | 1771 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: British
Study of Sancho Panza
Image | 1867 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: German
Rocks and Chair
Image | 1995 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Chinese
Sunflower and Hollyhocks
Image | 1889 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionImage view: General view
Restaurant Interior
Image | 1887 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: French
The Marriage Plot, Scene from Xixiang ji
Image | 1640 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Chinese
Chair
Image | 1993 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Puerto Rican
Easy chair, owned by Rev. Charles Dresser, a friend of the Lincoln family
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Upholstered lady's chair. Victorian Rococco style. Exposed walnut trim, medium stain. Chair back crest carved with two closed buds hanging upside-down, flanked by open roses, leaves and scrolls. Upholstered arm rests. Fabric is blue silk brocade with a raised, swirled floral pattern faded to a gold color. Back front has two horizontal rows of deep-buttoned tufting halfway up...
Chair, used by Abraham Lincoln at his law office at Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Stained hardwood office chair in a modified Windsor-style. Horseshoe-shaped back with eight round spokes. H 29" x W 14" x L 20".
Chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Caned seat Empire side chair. Seat is a modified shield shape, with raised rim, front, and sides. Back has two curved rails. Back legs are slightly curved, front legs cyma curve. Wide, flat, bowed stretcher at front, two rounded stretchers at each side. One round stretcher at back. H 32" x W 17" x D 15 1/2".
Rocking chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Mahogany with black upholstered horsehair rocker. Upholstered back. Seat and pillows on arm rails. Gondola-type arm, curving into circular arm that ends with a modified lotus flower turned into the circle. Head crest rail has carved flower (lotus), flanked by a large leaf on each side. Runners and legs are without decoration. 13 buttons on the upholstery. Front legs have a p...
Rocking chair, belonged to Pickarel family (friends of Abraham Lincoln)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black horsehair-upholstered rocking chair with partially upholstered arms. Back curved, ending in slight scroll. Arms curve around to front and back, up to underside of arms, with fleur de lis and curved design. Bottom edge of front seat rail has molded rim, back legs bowed slightly to rocker, front less so. H 39" x W 20" x D 19".
Dining chair, belonging to Abraham Lincoln
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hitchcock-style chair with rush seat. Black with gold lines and stenciling. Top rail has stenciled tulip, middle rail has stenciled grapes, knees have stenciled leaf. Turned bulbous stretcher in front, two stretchers side, one in back. L 34" x W 18" x D 14".

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