Bentside spinet
John Harris
1769 · Mahogany, mahogany veneer, white oak, birch, maple, cherry, white cedar, white pine · The American Wing
Spinets were so rarely made in colonial America that in 1769, when this example was finished, the Boston Gazette reported: "A few days since was shipped for Newport, a very curious Spinnet, being the first ever made in America, the performance of the ingenious Mr. John Harris, of Boston (Son of the late Mr. Joseph Harris, of London, Harpsichord and Spinnet Maker), and in every respect does Honour to that Artist".
- Artist
- John Harris
- Date
- 1769
- Medium
- Mahogany, mahogany veneer, white oak, birch, maple, cherry, white cedar, white pine
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Purchase, Anonymous Gift, Friends of the American Wing Fund, Sansbury-Mills, Dodge, and Pfeiffer Funds, and funds from various donors, 1976
