Lyre guitar
Maker
François Roudhloff
Date1805-1817 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedROUDHLOFF / A. PARISMarkingsScratched in script on the bottom of the base: Fanny E. Bayless / Nashville / Tenn /
Given by George Campbell Brown / 1866
DescriptionOnce owned by Lizinka Campbell, daughter of G. W. Campbell, U. S. Senator and Minister to Russia, who received it as a gift from a naval officer. It was hidden in a stable loft in Nashville during the Civil War. After the war, her son, George Campbell Brown, found the instrument and gave it to a family friend, Fanny E. Bayless, a transaction scratched on the bottom of the base of the instrument.
Published References"Important Acquisitions Made by Museum in 1982." Shrine to Music Museum, Inc Newsletter 10, No. 2 (January 1983), p. 2.
André P. Larson. The Shrine to Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir. Vermillion: The Shrine to Music Museum, 1988. Page 32.
André P. Larson. Beethoven: Musical Treasures from The Age of Revolution and Romance. With essays by John Eliot Gardner, William Meredith, and Gerhard Stradner. Exhibition catalog, Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Santa Ana, California, January 30-March 21, 1999. Santa Ana: The Bowers Museum, 1999. Page 10.
André P. Larson. Beethoven & Berlioz, Paris & Vienna: Musical Treasures from the Age of Revolution & Romance 1789-1848. With essay by John Koster. Exhibition catalog, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 12-November 2, 2003. Vermillion: National Music Museum 2003. Page 65.
Credit LineGrace L. Beede Fund, 1982
Object number03166
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