1. Donald L. Fennimore, “Fine Points of Furniture, American Empire: Late, Later, Latest,” in Victorian Furniture: Essays from a Victorian Society Autumn Symposium, edited by Kenneth L. Ames, published as Nineteenth Century 8, nos. 3–4 (1982): 46–54; Kenneth L. Ames, “Introduction,” in The Colonial Revival in America, edited by Alan Axelrod (New York and London: W. W. Norton for the Winterthur Museum, 1985), pp. 11–12. Valley Furniture Shop, Watchung, New Jersey, advertisement for Winterthur Museum Collections/Kindel Showroom Samples featured a “Phyfe-Style Dining Table,” New York Times, June 11, 1992, C8. This article is based upon an exhibition organized by the Museum of the City of New York, on view from March 10, 1993, to December 19, 1993. The presentation was made possible in part by a grant from William Doyle Galleries, New York. The show was subsequently installed at Boscobel Restoration, Inc., Garrison-on-Hudson, New York, where it was on view from March 2, 1994, to June 30, 1994. The scholarly assistance of Elizabeth Stillinger and Michael Kevin Brown in the exhibition’s organization is gratefully acknowledged. 2. For a detailed examination of Phyfe’s career, see Michael Kevin Brown, “Duncan Phyfe” (master’s thesis, University of Delaware, 1978). 3. Alexandria Gazette and Virginia Advertiser, October 19, 1840. Moses Yale Beach, comp., Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of New York City comprising an alphabetical arrangement of persons estimated to be worth $100,000 and upwards, Fifth Edition (New York: Sun Office, 1845), p. 24. 4. The most comprehensive analysis of Hagen’s life and career is Elizabeth Stillinger, “Ernest Hagen—Furniture Maker,” Maine Antique Digest (November 1988): 8D–16D; a conversation with Ms. Stillinger following the publication of that article led to the exhibition proposal that became Is It Phyfe? 5. Stillinger, “Ernest Hagen—Furniture Maker,” p. 10D, fig. 5, reproduces the order book sketch for the Tiffany chair; two chairs and a related table are in the Art Institute of Chicago. 6. Stillinger, “Ernest Hagen—Furniture Maker,” p. 12D, fig. 14, illustrates the order book sketch for the desk and the list of alterations. Three of Hagen’s order books, dating from 1880 to 1886, are in the New-York Historical Society, New York. See Ruth Ralston, “Ernest Hagen’s Order Books,” Antiques 48, no. 6 (December 1945): 356–57. 7. The dated but unidentified clipping is in the Hagen scrapbook, Museum of the City of New York. 8. Stillinger, “Ernest Hagen-Furniture Maker,” p. 12D; Trow’s New York City Directory, vol. 120 (1906–1907), p. 608. 9. See Ruth Ralston, “A New York Cabinetmaker’s Reminiscences,” Antiques 48, no. 6 (December 1943): 284–85; Elizabeth A. Ingerman, “Personal experiences of an old New York cabinetmaker,” Antiques 84, no. 5 (November 1963): 576–80. The Ernest F. Hagen Papers are in the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Museum Library, Collection 32 (88 ¥ 207); further Hagen papers are part of the R. T. Haines Halsey Papers, Collection 56 (75 ¥ 80.36–.38). 10. Henry Watson Kent and Florence N. Levy, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration MCMIX Catalogue of An Exhibition of American Paintings, Furniture, Silver And Other Objects of Art, 2 vols. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1909). 11. Charles Over Cornelius, Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922). 12. Antiques 10, no. 3 (September 1926): 165. Spring and Summertime, 1930 Catalogue (Chicago: Sears Roebuck and Co., 1930), p. 576. 13. Nancy V. McClelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency, 1795–1830 (New York: W. R. Scott, Inc., 1939). 14. At Pearsall’s death, the furniture went to his daughter Phoebe Pearsall, and then to her heirs. Eventually, C. Ruxton Love bought the suite at auction. He divided the group between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of the City of New York. See Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19th-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts (New York: New York Graphic Society, 1970), no. 17, for an armchair from the suite. Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York: Viking Press, 1966), p. 126, no. 72a. 15. Antiques & The Arts Weekly (Newtown, Connecticut), June 26, 1987, p. 59. 16. The chair owned by Hagen was illustrated in Walter A. Dyer, “Chairs of Our Forefathers,” Good Furniture 5, no. 3 (September 1915): 167. 17. The Bancker sketch is reproduced in Montgomery, American Furniture, p. 126, 72a. Ernest F. Hagen once owned the sketch and its companion bill and made a pencil copy of the drawing in his scrapbook (Museum of the City of New York). The sketch came to the Winterthur Library with the R. T. Haines Halsey Papers. 18. Sotheby’s Arcade Auctions, Silver, Decorations, American and English Furniture, Rugs and Carpets, sale no. 1491, New York, January 31, 1995, lot 2615. Two other lots in that sale had Hagen labels: a period sideboard renovated by Hagen (lot 2406) and a mahogany slant-front desk partially composed of eighteenth-century elements (lot 2614). 19. Ernest F. Hagen, “Personal Experiences of an Old New York Cabinet Maker,” Ernest F. Hagen Papers, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Collection 32 (88 ¥ 207).