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拍品专文
John Whitehurst (1761–1834), recorded at 22 Irongate, Derby, belonged to a distinguished family of barometer-makers renowned for their angle and wheel barometers. He also supplied his fellow member of the Lunar Society, Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), with the majority of his clock movements.
Other examples of this rare and distinguished model by John Whitehurst include:
1. One in the Untermyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, formerly in the Henry Hirsch collection (illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture, The Collection of Irwin Untermyer, Norwich, 1958, pl. 20, fig. 36
2. One sold anonymously (Arthur Leidesdorf); Sotheby's, London, 27-28 June 1974, lot 158.
3. One with more elaborately carved frame, sold from the collection of Walter Chrysler; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 29-30 April 1960, lot 220.
4. One in the Gerstenfeld Collection, Washington D.C. (illustrated in E. Lennox-Boyd, ed., Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, p. 242, cat. 99).
5. One sold from the collection of Dick Turpin; Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, lot 111 (£38,400). This barometer was possibly also the one sold from the collection of Benjamin Sonnenberg; Sotheby's, New York, 5-6 June 1979, lot 1641.
Other examples of this rare and distinguished model by John Whitehurst include:
1. One in the Untermyer Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, formerly in the Henry Hirsch collection (illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture, The Collection of Irwin Untermyer, Norwich, 1958, pl. 20, fig. 36
2. One sold anonymously (Arthur Leidesdorf); Sotheby's, London, 27-28 June 1974, lot 158.
3. One with more elaborately carved frame, sold from the collection of Walter Chrysler; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 29-30 April 1960, lot 220.
4. One in the Gerstenfeld Collection, Washington D.C. (illustrated in E. Lennox-Boyd, ed., Masterpieces of English Furniture: The Gerstenfeld Collection, London, 1998, p. 242, cat. 99).
5. One sold from the collection of Dick Turpin; Christie's, London, 9 March 2006, lot 111 (£38,400). This barometer was possibly also the one sold from the collection of Benjamin Sonnenberg; Sotheby's, New York, 5-6 June 1979, lot 1641.