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Author:

Tarule, Robert.

Title:

The artisan of Ipswich : craftsmanship and community in colonial New England / Robert Tarule.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xi, 155 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Handicraft--Ipswich--Ipswich--History--17th century.
Artisans--Ipswich--Ipswich--History--17th century.
Artisans--Ipswich--Ipswich--Biography.
Joinery--Ipswich--Ipswich--History--17th century.
Workmanship--Ipswich--Ipswich--History--17th century.
Ipswich (Mass.)--Biography.
Ipswich (Mass.)--History--17th century.
Ipswich (Mass.)--Social conditions--17th century.
New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134) and index.

Contents:

Chapter One: Ipswich -- Chapter Two: Oak: the Material of Choice -- Chapter Three: Thomas Dennis in the Woods -- Chapter Four: The Town at Work -- Chapter Five: Thomas Dennis in the Shop.

Summary:

"Thomas Dennis emigrated to America from England in 1663, settling in Ipswich, a Massachusetts village a long day's sail north of Boston. He had apprenticed in joinery, the most common method of making furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain, and he became Ipswich's second joiner, setting up shop in the heart of the village. During his lifetime, Dennis won wide renown as an artisan. Today, connoisseurs judge his elaborately carved furniture as among the best produced in seventeenth-century America." "Robert Tarule, historian and craftsman, recreates Dennis's world in recounting how he erected a single oak chest."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780801887529
0801887526
9780801878695
0801878691

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53483547

LCCN:

2003023184

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)