Title: Lyre Guitar
Object type: Lyre Guitar
Date: ca. 1840
Culture: French
Artist:  Joseph-Louis Germain 
Artist bio: French, Mirecourt 1822–1870 Mirecourt
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Wood, mother-of-pearl, gut, metal wound on silk
Dimensions: L. 36 in.
L. of fingerboard (nut to base) 39.8 cm
W. of fingerboard at base 5.9 cm
L. of body 43. cm
W. of body at widest 33.1 cm
D. of body at neck 7.2 cm, at foot 9.2 cm
L. of Strings vibrating 65.1 cm
Diam. of soundhole +/- 6cm
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
Credit line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Geography:     France      
Department: Musical Instruments
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY