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Lyre Guitar   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Creator:Joseph Pons
Title
Lyre Guitar
Description
French; Lyre Guitar; Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Date circa 1805
date QS:P571,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Mahogany, spruce, ebony, brass, nickel-silver, gilding
Dimensions

Height: 34 1/4 in. (87 cm)

Width: 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Musical Instruments
Accession number
1998.121
Credit line Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1998
References
  • Joseph Pons (probably) (circa 1805
    date QS:P,+1805-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
    ). [1998.121] Lyre Guitar. Paris, France.
    "​ Maker: Possibly Joseph Pons (French, born 1776) (probably a son of César Pons) ",
    "​ Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings: Marking: (printed label within ornamental border) “Pons, fils/luthier,/Rue du Grand Hurleur/No. 5/A Paris, an 13.”; (stamped on front of pegbox and on soundboard just below fingerboard) “Pons fils/à Paris” ",
    "​ [Description] This form of the guitar was created about 1785. The columnar arms supporting the yoke are veneered in mahogany. The guitar has six single courses of strings. A printed label inside the instrument reads: “Pons / fils / luthier, / Rue du Grand Hurleur / No. 5 / A Paris, an 13.” The phrase “an 13” refers to the thirteenth year (1804–1805) of the French Revolutionary Calendar. ",
    "​Renaissance paintings by Lorenzo Costa and Raffaellino Garbo show lyre-guitars held upright (possibly interpretations of incised strings in classical bas-reliefs), as they were properly held by the player. Essentially, the lyre-guitar was a modified version of the lyre of antiquity, but with a fingerboard and six strings. English lyre-guitars were sold from 1811 as the six-string "Apollo" lyre of Edward Light and the twelve-string "Imperyal Lyre" of Angelo Benedetto Ventura. "
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/503505

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Lyre Guitar, French, possibly Joseph Pons (MET, 1998.121)

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