The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Musical Instruments

"Royal George" Cello

William Forster

Date

1782

Medium

Spruce, maple, ebony

Dimensions

48 1/8 × 17 1/4 × 10 in. (122.2 × 43.8 × 25.4 cm)

Object type

Violoncello

Classification

Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted

Culture

British

Country

United Kingdom

Object number

2016.786a–c

Credit line

Gift of Mona and Bradford Endicott, in honor of Ken Moore, 2016

Gallery

684

The Met object ID 627897. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.