Advanced Search 
Lyre guitar (Apollo lyre)
Clementi & Co. (English, active 1802–1831)
about 1810
Object Place: London, England
Medium/Technique
Maple, spruce, ebony, ivory
Dimensions
Overall: 87 x 36.3 x 10.5cm (34 1/4 x 14 5/16 x 4 1/8in.)
Lender accessory (Case): 95 × 45 × 15 cm (37 3/8 × 17 11/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Lender accessory (Tuning Wrench): 5 × 5 × 2 cm (1 15/16 × 1 15/16 × 13/16 in.)
Lender accessory (Case): 95 × 45 × 15 cm (37 3/8 × 17 11/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Lender accessory (Tuning Wrench): 5 × 5 × 2 cm (1 15/16 × 1 15/16 × 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
H. E. Bolles Fund
Accession Number2019.2233
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
ProvenanceBy 1930, George Wigglesworth (b. 1853 – d. 1930), Milton, MA; by descent to his daughter-in-law, Isabella Councilman Wigglesworth (b. 1895 - d. 1983), Harvard and Cambridge, MA; 1983, by inheritance to her son, Frank Wigglesworth, Jr. (b. 1918 - d. 1996), New York and Ipswich, MA; 1996, by inheritance to his daughter, Philio Wigglesworth Cushing, Manchester by the Sea, MA; 2019, sold by Philio Wigglesworth Cushing to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 11, 2019)