Harpsichord (after 18th-century type)

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Harpsichord (after 18th-century type)

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

1906–07

Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Medium/Technique Mahogany

Dimensions Length 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 Line Edward 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

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAmericas, Musical Instruments

ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones

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)