Title: Mandolin
Object type: Mandolin
Date: 1898
Culture: American
Artist:  Orville Gibson 
Artist bio: American, 1856–1918
Artist nationality: American
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Walnut, spruce, ebony, pearl, tortoiseshell, bone
Dimensions: 26 1/4 × 11 × 3 1/4 in. (66.7 × 27.9 × 8.3 cm)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Credit line: Purchase, The Jonathan & Faye Kellerman Foundation Gift, 2015
Geography:  Kalamazoo Michigan  United States      
Department: Musical Instruments
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY