Title: Guitar
Object type: Guitar
Date: 1797
Culture: Spanish
Artist:  Benito Sanchez de Aguilera 
Artist bio: Spanish, Madrid, active 1790–1800
Artist nationality: Spanish
Artist role: Maker
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
Credit line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1990
Geography:  Madrid   Spain      
Department: Musical Instruments
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY