The furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820 : "a true North Britain" in the Southern backcountry / Elizabeth A. Davison.
This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies through...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham [Md.] :
AltaMira Press,
c2011.
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| Summary: | This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland in the late 18th century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout his life, evidenced by the imagery and inscriptions sympathetic to various British causes_such as the suppression of the Irish rebellion in 1798 and the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805_that he worked into his furniture. Davison provides insight into the furniture's appeal to Anglo-American patrons, not secret loyalists, but men still culturally tied to Great Britain. Shearer's pieces are scattered among various collections, and many of them have been identified only in the last 25 years. This catalog is the only work in which all of Shearer's known pieces of furniture are presented in a single volume. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 219 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780759119567 1283614863 9781283614863 9780759119550 0759119554 9786613927316 6613927317 0759119562 |
| Language: | English. |