Lyre Guitar
Joseph-Louis Germain
ca. 1840
Medium
Wood, mother-of-pearl, gut, metal wound on silk
Dimensions
L. 36 in. L. of fingerboard (nut to base) 39.8 cm W. of fingerboard at base 5.9 cm L. of body 43. cm W. of body at widest 33.1 cm D. of body at neck 7.2 cm, at foot 9.2 cm L. of Strings vibrating 65.1 cm Diam. of soundhole +/- 6cm
Classification
Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Culture
French
Department
Musical Instruments
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession Number
89.4.1074