Bentside Spinet
Unknown Artist
Less than a dozen bentside spinets have been identified with this maker. Queen Anne owned one of Haward's virginals and Samuel Pepys noted in his diary that he "did there like of a little espinette".
Credit: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889
1684
Wood and various materials
54.0 x 0.8in
89.2.163
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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