Harpsichord (after 18th-century type)

Chickering & Sons, under the direction of Arnold Dolmetsch (American)

1906–07

Object PlaceBoston, Massachusetts, United States

Medium/TechniqueMahogany

DimensionsLength 238.6 cm, width 95.8 cm, case height 26.8 cm (Length 93 15/16 in., width 37 11/16 in., case height 10 9/16 in.)

Credit LineEdward F. Searles Musical Instrument Collection—Gift of Edward S. Rowland, Benjamin A. Rowland, Jr., George B. Rowland, Daniel B. Rowland, Rodney D. Rowland and M.A. Swedlund in memory of their father, Benjamin Allen Rowland

Accession number1981.752

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsMusical instruments

Collections

ProvenanceBefore 1920, Edward F. Searles (1841-1920), Methuen, Massachusetts; by 1920, by inheritance to B. Allen Rowland (1910-1991), New Castle, New Hampshire; 1981, gift of the estate of B. Allen Rowland, Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1992)