John Winthrop (1587/88-1649), 1798

| Samuel McIntire (1757-1811)
| carved and painted wood
| 15 1/2 (h) (39.370)
| inscribed on the base: "Winthrop”
| Bequest of William Bentley, 1819
| Weis 149

Ex. Coll.: commissioned by the donor, 1798.

Exhibitions:
1804, Independence Day Celebration, Salem Meeting House.
1931, "American Folk Sculpture," Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey.
1957, "Samuel McIntire," Essex Institute, no. 8.
1977, "Landscape and Faction: Spatial Transformation in William Bentley's Salem," Essex Institute, no. 18.

Publications:
"Editor's Attic," The Magazine Antiques 21(January 1932): 8, 12.
"Editor's Attic," The Magazine Antiques 28(October 1935): 138-40.
Fiske Kimball, Mr. Samuel McIntire, Carver, The Architect of Salem (Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1940): 138, fig. 362.
Nina Fletcher Little, "Carved Figures by Samuel McIntire and his Contemporaries," Essex Institute Historical Collections 93(April-July 1957): 195-96, fig. 48.
Susan Geib, "Landscape and Faction: Spatial Transformation in William Bentley's Salem," Essex Institute Historical Collections 113(July 1977): 217.

 

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