Tomorrow At Monticello
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69°
Slight Chc Showers
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Mem
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Today’s Hours
Gates open from 8:30 am to 6 pm
Artist/Maker: Unknown[1]
Created: Unknown
Origin/Purchase: Philadelphia or New York City
Materials: mahogany
Dimensions: H: 73.7 x D ot top: 44.5 (29 x 17 1/2 in.)
Location: Dining Room
Provenance: Thomas Jefferson; by descent to Virginia and Nicholas Trist; by descent to Martha Jefferson Trist Burke; by gift to Fanny E. Cole in 1882; by descent to Mrs. M.T. Barrier; by purchase to the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in 1938
Accession Number: 1938-25
Historical Notes: The table at right is one of several tilt-top tables with a family history connecting it with the Monticello joinery. Although its construction suggests that it was made in New York or Philadelphia, a descendant wrote:
"This little Mahogany Table was made at Monticello-by Thomas Jefferson's cabinetmakers-"Daddy" Hemmings a slave of T. Jefferson who had his capable servants taught-so that if they ever were forced by circumstances to leave the family-to be able to support themselves-...The table a Candle-Stand and so arranged as to be either a light source or fire screen..."[2]