Guitar
Object type: Guitar
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: Spanish
Artist: Joseph de Frías
Artist bio: Spanish, active Seville and Cadiz, ca. 1775–1800
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: Spanish
Date: ca. 1780
Medium: Spruce, rosewood, cedar, ebony, mother-of-pearl
Dimensions: Total length: 948 mm

Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Geography:  Seville   Spain  
Credit line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1992
Accession year: 1992