Pedal harp

Ignace Pleyel & Cie (French, born in 1807)

about 1830

Object PlaceParis, France

Medium/TechniqueMaple, spruce

DimensionsHeight 168 cm, width 88.8 cm, depth 46.7 cm (Height 66 1/8 in., width 34 15/16 in., depth 18 3/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb

Accession number52.973

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ClassificationsMusical instruments

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InscriptionsEngraved on action plate: HARPES A DOUBLE MOUVEMENT PAR BREVET D'INVENTION / DE F. DIZI / Clle Pleyel & Cie / Facteurs du Roi / Rue Cadet No. 9 / à Paris; stamped inside access hatch and behind action: 97

ProvenanceBefore 1928, apparently owned by Annie Bigelow Lyons. By 1928, by descent to Mrs. Horatio Appleton Lamb (b. 1857), Boston; by 1952, by descent to her daughters, Miss Aimée (1893-1989) and Miss Rosamond (1898-1989) Lamb, Boston; 1952, gift of the Lamb sisters to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 12, 1952)