IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77190 accession number: M.10-1941 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Wooden harp of the modern 'Irish' form, curved pillar, rounded back, 4 sound holes. 37 wire strings (all missing, tag ends of some remain), no form of sharping mechanism. There is a metal strengthening plate beneath the neck. The pillar is attached to the sound box by means of a bolt which passes through the pillar and into a rounded block of wood at the base of the soundboard. The harp is painted with geen shamrocks up the soundboard above the Royal Arms and maker's inscription, gold shamrocks up the sides of the soundbox, between the soundholes, and all along the neck and pillar. The soundholes are edged with gold; the feet are carved as lion's paws, and there is a gold edging round the base of the soundbox. All strings have stationary nuts, those for the fifth to sixteenth strings from the top have been relocated slightly lower than they were originally, and there appears to be some form of wedging inserte din the tuning pin holes to prevent the pins pushing through too far. object type: Wood, of modern 'Irish' form, painted in green and gold with shamrocks; strings missing title: harp NOTES ----- type: history note value: J.S. Morley, from whom purchased by Mrs Chadwick in 1937 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs N.K. Chadwick STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77190 SUBJECTS ------------------- shamrock shamrock CATEGORIES ------ category: musical instrument DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1835 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1835 CREATORS -------- maker: Egan, John, harp maker DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 153 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/M_10_1941_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 544 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/mid_M_10_1941_281_29.jpg height: 680 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/M_10_1941_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 544 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/preview_M_10_1941_281_29.jpg height: 340 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/M_10_1941_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 560 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/mid_M_10_1941_282_29.jpg height: 661 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/M_10_1941_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 560 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/preview_M_10_1941_282_29.jpg height: 330 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/757/large_M_10_1941_1_mas.jpg height: 1431 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/757/mid_M_10_1941_1_mas.jpg height: 699 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.10-1941_1_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/757/preview_M_10_1941_1_mas.jpg height: 349 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/757/M_10_1941_1_mas.ptif height: 2046 pixels width: 1464 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/758/large_M_10_1941_2_mas.jpg height: 1390 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/758/mid_M_10_1941_2_mas.jpg height: 679 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.10-1941_2_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/758/preview_M_10_1941_2_mas.jpg height: 339 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/758/M_10_1941_2_mas.ptif height: 2040 pixels width: 1503 pixels