IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77348
accession number:	M.9-1941

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 16 July 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Painted wooden Grecian style harp, with eight brass pedals, leather wrappings, five doors in the sound holes, double action fourchette mechanism on all but the top string, external linkage on lower mechanism, 43 strings E-E, bottom eight strings are wire wound, the rest gut.   Brass action plates on each side of the neck.   String pegs on all strings;  ten are missing.   Straight carved column;  head of column decorated with gilded plaster in the form of Grecian angels and ferns, gilded ferns at base of column, back feet have gesso scallops and gilded.   Griffins (winged dogs?) above front feet which are also scallop shaped (a replacement of the paws), mask and ferns on the front of the pedal box, all gilded.   Soundboard unpainted.   The rest of the harp is painted brown with gold geometrical highlights.
title:	harp

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought new from Erard by Miss Goddard, Cliff House, Nr. Marlborough in August 1826.   Repaired by Morley/Erard for J. Armstrong, Esq. 23.10.1919.   Purchased by Mrs. Chadwick from J.S. Morley in 1937.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs. Norah K. Chadwick

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77348





CATEGORIES
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category: musical instruments

DATING
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creation date:	1802 - 1802
creation date earliest:	1802
creation date latest:	1802

CREATORS
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maker: Sebastian Erard


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