Title: Viola
Object type: Viola
Date: 1791
Culture: British
Artist:  Benjamin Banks 
Artist bio: 1727–1795
Artist nationality: British
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: Body L.: 38.8 cm ( 15-3/8 in.); Body W.:  upper bout: 18.5 (7-3/8 in.), center bout:  13.2 cm (5-1/4 in.), lower bout: 22.95 cm ( 9 in.);  Rib H.:  upper: 3.5 cm (1-3/8 in.), middle and lower - each: 3.5 cm (1--3/8 in.);  Vibrating string L.:  35.2 cm (13-7/8 in.)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy and Robert Rosenbaum, 1979
Geography:  Salisbury   United Kingdom      
Department: Musical Instruments
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY