Portable Harp
Artwork Details
- Title: Portable Harp
- Date: 18th century
- Geography: England, United Kingdom
- Culture: British
- Medium: Wood, various materials
- Dimensions: Height: extreme 66.3 cm.
pillar 58.5 cm.
above soundboard 56.0 cm.
Soundboard: resonating length 47.5 cm., greatest width 22.5 cm.,
Strings: (sounding length) longest 49.0 cm.
shortest 9.0 cm.
c2 string 26.0 cm. - Classification: Chordophone-Harp
- Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
- Object Number: 89.4.1084
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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