Grand Harmonicon
Francis Hopkinson Smith
ca. 1830
Medium
Wood, glass
Dimensions
Width: 90.5 cm (35-5.8 in.); Diam: 53.3 cm (21 in.); Height: 21.5 cm (8-7/16 in.); case 93.8 cm (36-15/16 in.); total Diam. of glasses: 7.9 -12.6 cm (3-1/8 - 4-15/16 in.)
Classification
Idiophone-Friction
Culture
American
Department
Musical Instruments
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mrs. Norma F. Finer Perl Gift, in memory of Albert B. Finer, by exchange, and Gift of Mrs. Barbara Wendel Kerr, 1989
Accession Number
1989.357
About the Artist
Francis Hopkinson Smith · 1797–1872
American, Baltimore, Maryland 1838–1915 New York