Portable Harp

1814–30
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Portable Harp
  • Maker: Louis Joseph Domeny
  • Date: 1814–30
  • Geography: France
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: Wood, various materials
  • Dimensions: Height: extreme 66.4 cm., pillar 67.0 cm.; Soundboard: resonating length 62.0 cm., greatest width 16.5 cm.;
    Strings (sounding length): longest 62.0 cm.
    shortest 9.5 cm.
    c2 string 31.7 cm.
  • Classification: Chordophone-Harp
  • Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
  • Object Number: 89.4.1082
  • Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments

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