Skip to main content

Upright grand piano

(English, active 1802–1831)
1814
Object PlaceLondon, England
Medium/TechniqueMahogany
DimensionsHeight 224.5 cm, width 113.2 cm, depth 52.5 cm (Height 96 1/4 in., width 44 9/16 in., depth 20 11/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession number41.920
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsMusical instruments
ProvenanceBefore 1931, Edward Jackson Holmes (1873-1950), Boston, Massachusetts; gift of Holmes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 1941)
Lyre guitar (Apollo lyre)
Clementi & Co.
about 1810
Restricted: For reference only
Clementi & Co.
1800–25
George Astor & Co.
about 1805–10
Travel guitar (Backpacker model)
C. F. Martin & Co., Inc.
1999
Restricted: For reference only
about 1860
Guitar
Icilio Consalvi
1895–1905
Guitar
Isaiah Hatch Arey
1867
Elmer Vickrey
1894
Square piano
James Henry Houston
early 1790s