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Engraving from a book titled, "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" printed in 1753. Thomas Chippendale was the designer and Mary and Matthew Darly were the engravers of the work. The piece is framed in a black frame with a white matte.

Thomas Chippendale was born 1718 in Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England in June 1718. He became a cabinet-maker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, upon which success he became renowned. The designs are regarded as representing the current British fashion for furniture of that period and are now reproduced globally. He was buried 16 November 1779, according to the records of St Martin-in-the-Fields, in the cemetery since built upon by the National Gallery. Chippendale furniture is much valued. After working as a journeyman cabinet maker in London, during 1754, he became the first cabinet-maker to publish a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director. Three editions were published, the first in 1754, followed by a virtual reprint in 1755, and finally, a revised and enlarged edition in 1762, by which time Chippendale's illustrated designs began to show signs of Neoclassical

H 16.5 in. x W 22.5 in. x D .75 in.

H 11 in x W 17 in.