Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Alice P. Liddell's writing desk [object].

Accession number
PML 352899
Published
London, England : Parkins & Gotto, [1860-1899?]
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
Probably manufacturered during the 1860s-1899.
Triple folding black-green leather writing desk lined in wood with moveable wooden compartments, black morocco embossed fold down flap, 2 marble[?] slabs over black morocco envelope and letter compartments, 1 ivory pen, 3 different types of brass pen nibs, and leather ink blot pad (32 x 33.7 cm; 32 x 6.7 cm, folded).
Housed in belted leather satchel/suitcase stamped with A.P. Liddell.
Description
1 writing desk
Provenance
Alice Pleasance Liddell Hargreaves; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Classification
Department