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Grand Pianoforte
Manufacturer Érard (French, ca. 1780–1959)
Designer George Henry Blake
ca. 1840
- Medium
- Satinwood veneer, oak, spruce, iron, steel, ebony, ivory, gilding, mother-of-pearl, holly, mahogany, burl walnut, tulipwood, silver wire
- Classification
- Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano
- Dimensions
- Height (Total): 37 1/2 in. (95.3 cm) Width (Of case, perpendicular to keyboard): 97 1/4 in. (247 cm) Depth (Of case, parallel to keyboard): 58 7/8 in. (149.5 cm)
- Culture
- British
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musical Instruments
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Henry McSweeney, 1959
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
