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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, volume 55 (2020)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 55

"The Met's German Keyed Guitar"

Wheeldon, Daniel
2020
11 pages
11 illustrations
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The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 55 include an essay on Buddhist imagery in a medieval Chinese silk painted banner, a discussion of a rare 19th-century keyed guitar, and a contextualization of Ed Ruscha’s books of photographs of L.A. streets and gas stations of the 1960s and ’70s.

Met Art in Publication

Keyed Guitar (Tastengitarre), Matteo (Mathias) Sprenger  German, Ebony, metal, strings, varnish,, German
Matteo (Mathias) Sprenger
1843
Pianoforte Guittar (Keyed cittern/English guittar), Christian Claus  German, Wood and various materials, British
Christian Claus
1783–89
English Guittar (Cittern) with "Smith's Patent Box", Wood and various materials, British
mid to late 18th century
Square Piano, Dodds & Claus, Mahogany, iron, stained hardwood, ivory, bone, various materials, American
Dodds & Claus
ca. 1791

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