Guitar
Details
- Palette
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- Dimensions
- Height: 36 13/16 in. (93.5 cm) Width: 11 11/16 in. (29.7 cm) Depth: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
- Origin
- American
- Department
- Musical Instruments
- Holding institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Image provider
- metropolitan-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Rogers Fund, 1979
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Music Metadata · 99%
The museum identifies the object as a guitar and records it in the Department of Musical Instruments.
Visual Qualities
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Symmetrical Visual · 92%
The guitar’s soundboard and body are shown frontally with a largely balanced, mirrored silhouette around the central neck and sound hole.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 98%
The catalog dates the guitar to circa 1838, within the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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American Art Metadata · 88%
The museum records the object’s place of origin as American.
Materials
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Wood Metadata · 99%
Wood, including maple and spruce, is explicitly listed in the museum’s medium description; the wooden body and soundboard are also visibly apparent.
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Metal Metadata · 94%
Metal is explicitly listed among the catalogued materials, consistent with the visible strings, frets, and tuning hardware.
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Brass Metadata · 90%
Brass is explicitly listed among the materials, consistent with the warm metallic appearance of the tuning hardware.
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Ivory Metadata · 87%
Ivory is explicitly listed in the museum’s medium description, although its specific location is not established by the photograph.
Antiquities, Artifacts, and Religious Objects
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Musical Instrument Both · 99%
The catalog classifies the object as a guitar and chordophone-lute-plucked-fretted instrument; the image shows a fretted neck, tuning pegs, strings, bridge, sound hole, and resonating body.
Source & rights
Christian Frederick Martin. Guitar. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.