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Square piano
about 1800
Benjamin Crehore, American, 1765–1831

Milton, Massachusetts, United States
Length 152.9 cm, width 56.7 cm, case height 23.7 cm, height with stand 85.4 cm (Length 60 3/16 in., width 22 5/16 in., case height 9 5/16 in., height with stand 33 5/8 in.)
Mahogany

Classification: Musical instruments

On view in the: Musical Instruments Gallery

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gift of Camilla Cunningham Blackman in memory of Lucy Clarendon Crehore, 1992
Accession number: 1992.95

Provenance/Ownership History: Donated by Camilla Cunningham Blackman of Groton, Massachusetts. Blackman inherited the instrument from her mother, Ruth P. Cunningham of ____ who probably purchased it during the 1940s from an antiques dealer in New York.

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