Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011

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Guitar

1890s
John C. Haynes and Company
Length 95.8 cm, width 31.8 cm (Length 37 11/16 in, width 12 1/2 in)
Rosewood, spruce, ebony, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, ivory

Classification: Musical instruments

Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Accession number: 2010.581

Location: Musical Instruments Gallery

Provenance/Ownership History: In the 1890s, possibly included in an exhibition, Germany; during the 1890s, purportedly sold at German exhibition to a family of minor royalty, Bavaria. About 1998, acquired by a dealer, Dusseldorf, Germany; before 2001, sold by German dealer to a dealer, New York State; about 2001, sold by New York dealer to James Bollman, Arlington, Massachusetts; 2010, sold by Bollman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 22, 2010)

Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Edwin M. Ripin Collection–Friends of the Collection Fund