Guitar
Object type: Guitar
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: Spanish
Artist: Benito Sanchez de Aguilera
Artist bio: Spanish, Madrid, active 1790–1800
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: Spanish
Date: 1797
Medium: Spruce or fir top, cypress back and ribs, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard and frets, ebony nut, gut strings
Dimensions: Total length: 914 mm
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Geography:  Madrid   Spain  
Credit line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1990
Accession year: 1990