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The cabinet dictionary: containing an explanation of all the terms used in the cabinet, chair & upholstery branches; with directions for varnish-making, polishing, and gilding...

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Title
The cabinet dictionary: containing an explanation of all the terms used in the cabinet, chair & upholstery branches; with directions for varnish-making, polishing, and gilding...
Names
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1803
Place: London
Publisher: Printed by W. Smith, sold by W. Row
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection
Shelf locator: 8-MOI (Sheraton, T. Cabinet dictionary)
Topics
Furniture
Cabinetwork
Genres
Dictionaries
Books
Illustrations
Prints
Directories
Notes
Statement of responsibility: By T. Sheraton.
Content: Imperfect: plates wanting.
Content: "A list of most of the master cabinetmakers, upholsterers, and chair makers, in and about London, for 1803": p. 435-440.
Content: Title continues: ...To which is added a supplementary treatise on geometrical lines, perspective and painting in general. The whole illustrated on eighty-eight handsomely-engraved copper-plates, including a very great variety of the most fashionable pieces of cabinet furniture, and the five orders of architecture in perspective.
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: Vi, 440 p. 22 cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
Library of Congress Control Number: ca 17000998
RLIN/OCLC: 5711954
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13950548
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1aaee030-50e9-0134-1ecb-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1751: Creator Born
  • 1803: Issued
  • 1806: Creator Died
  • 2019: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The cabinet dictionary" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1803. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/875a5100-50e9-0134-8aa0-00505686a51c

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The cabinet dictionary" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 18, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/875a5100-50e9-0134-8aa0-00505686a51c

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1803). The cabinet dictionary Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/875a5100-50e9-0134-8aa0-00505686a51c

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The cabinet dictionary