The artisan of Ipswich
Subtitle: craftsmanship and community in colonial New England
By: Robert Tarule.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Handicraft -- Massachusetts -- Ipswich -- History -- 17th century; Artisans -- Massachusetts -- Ipswich -- History -- 17th century; Artisans -- Massachusetts -- Ipswich -- Biography; Joinery -- Massachusetts -- Ipswich -- History -- 17th century; Workmanship -- Massachusetts -- 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
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134) and index.