Guitar
Object type: Guitar
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: French
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Voboam
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: French
Date: 1697
Medium: Spruce, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory, ebony
Dimensions: 38 1/8 × 9 15/16 × 4 in. (96.9 × 25.2 × 10.2 cm)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Geography:     France  
Credit line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1989
Accession year: 1989