Explore

Showing results

Hide images

Guitar

"Flat back of pine stained to resemble rosewood. Belly of two pieces of pine with double purfling in ivory and rosewood, and decorated relatively crudely with floral marquetry of mother-of-pearl and toirtoiseshell. The bridge is plain and the neck block has no slipper. There are ten ivory frets, also five on the belly. The figure-of-eight head for five single strings is a nineteenth century replacement, and the neck, only 3.5 cm wide at the nut may also not be original." - Anthony Baines:Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 83.

  • Date:
    1740 - 1760 (Made)
  • Maker:
    Unknown
  • Collection:
    Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Inventory number:
    Loading...
  • Place of production:
    Italy
  • Culture:
  • Period:
  • Materials:planed and stained pine back and sides; planed pine soundboard; purfled (bordered) with ivory and rosewood; inlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell marquetry; ivory ebony stringing along the back of the neck; tortoise and mother of pearl inlay along the fingerboard of the neck; ivory frets on the fingerboard.
  • Specific materials/techniques:
  • Decorative elements:
  • Inscriptions:
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:
  • Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Measurements:Length: 90 cm total length, Length: 44 cm length of body, Width: 20.5 cm width of upper bout, Width: 16.5 cm width of middle bout, Width: 24.5 cm width of lower bout, Depth: 7 cm maximum depth of body, Length: 63 cm string length