# Lyre Guitar

- By: Possibly Joseph Pons
- Date: ca. 1805
- Medium: Mahogany, spruce, ebony, brass, nickel-silver, gilding
- Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted
- Dimensions: Height: 34 1/4 in. (87 cm) Width: 14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm)
- Culture: French
- Credit line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1998
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/503505)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/mi/web-large/DP105342.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)