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Guitar

Date:: ca. 1800
Geography:: probably Naples, Italy
Medium:: Spruce, ebony, ivory, tortoiseshell
Dimensions:: L.: 91.4 cm (36 in.); W. 27 cm (10-5/8 in.); D. 9.8 cm (3-7/8 in.)
Classification:: Chordophone-Lute
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1969
Accession Number:: 69.29

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 684

Description

The elaborate decoration of this guitar consists of engraved ivory plaques on an ebony ground. The fingerboard is faced with tortoiseshell. It is strung with six single courses of strings.
References

Dobney Jayson Kerr. "Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (2011), pg. 13-14, ill.

Winternitz Emanuel. Pleasing Eye and Ear Alike. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1971, Vol. XXX, No. 2, pg. 71, 73, ill.
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Ivory (5,389)

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Rome and Southern Italy, 1600–1800 A.D.

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