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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Mantel lamp
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Mantel lamp

Manufacturer Messenger & Sons
CultureEnglish
Date1800-1850
MediumBronze | Glass
DimensionsOverall: 17 3/4 in. (45.1 cm)
InscribedLabeled on burner support: "Messenger & Sons/63 Hatton Garden London/& Birmingham/Manufactured for/Alfred Welles/Boston".
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2308B
On View
Chrysler Museum of Art, MMH, Parlor
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Messenger & Sons
1800-1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1800-1820
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1800-1820
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2022.
Fred Wilson
2018
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Charles-Antoine Coypel
ca. 1740-1745
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2022
Jacques Nicholas Pierre François Dubuc
ca. 1815-1819
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Jacques Nicholas Pierre François Dubuc
ca. 1815
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
Franz Gondelach
18th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
ca. 1810-1820
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2023.
John Singer Sargent
1904
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
18th century
Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Ammi Phillips
ca. 1838