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Dining Chair from Blythe Farm

A black painted dining room chair

Photo: Peter Oliver Permission to photograph was given by the Fenelon Museum Management Board.

 

The dining chair is located at the Fenelon Museum.  The chair was received from Blythe Farm house before it was demolished.  The chair is most likely oak but is now painted black.  The chair has a slanted back, which is similar to French-Canadian chairs found in nineteenth century homes.  You can see from the Anne Langton’s sketches that the chair was indeed in the room when these sketches were made.

Miniature charcoal print titled two sides of one room. This is the side of John Langton's home that has the fireplace. It has two basic wooden chairs. There are two book cases on the wall opposite the fireplace with well over 100 books on it. Hanging on the wall is a hat, a saddle, scissors, pots and pans, and a framed print. The sketch represents a very basic cabin room of Upper Canada in 1830.

Anne Langton’s “Two Sides of the Same Room in John’s House” is used by permission of the City of Kawartha Lakes Archives.