IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 141209 accession number: M/F.1-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Wooden case painted in polychrome with flowers, and on the underside en grisaille with a coat-of-arms (unidentified). title: harpsichord NOTES ----- type: history note value: Eleanora Duse, Asolo; by descent to her daughter, Enrichetta Bullough (Marchetti-Checchi); offered for sale but not sold, Sotheby's, 12 June 1931, lot 86. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Enrichetta Bullough, 1933 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141209 CATEGORIES ------ category: musical instrument DATING ------ creation date: 1620 - 1620 creation date earliest: 1620 creation date latest: 1620 culture: 17th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Boni da Cortona, Giovanni Battista DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 100 dimension: Length units: in value: 77 dimension: Width units: cm value: 196 CITATIONS -------- The Development of the Tuning and Tone Colour of an Instrument made in Venice about 1500 The Fitzwilliam Museum Harpsichord I Turned It Into a Palace, Sydney Cockerell and the Fitzwilliam Museum Some notes on the Roman style in harpsichords c.1619 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: 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