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Square Piano
•Maker: Robert Nunns (British, (active United States) 1791-1869)
•Maker: John Clark (British (active United States), active 1833-1907)
•Date: 1853
•Geography: New York, New York, United States
•Culture: American
•Medium: Rosewood, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, abalone, felt, metal, paint, gilding
•Dimensions:
•Height: 37¾ in. (95.9 cm)
•Width: 87 15/16 in. (223.3 cm)
•Depth: 46 7/16 in. (118 cm)
•Classification: Chordophone-Zither-struck-piano
•Credit Line: Gift of George Lowther, 1906
•Accession Number: 06.1312
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 736.
This costly showpiece of Renaissance and Rococo Revival eclecticism, an obvious status symbol perhaps intended for display at New York’s Crystal Palace exposition, elevated the reputation of the English immigrants Robert Nunns and John Clark, partners in New York since 1833; they had exhibited an equally ornate piano in London in 1851. Built on the scale of a billiard table, this massive rosewood instrument stands on elephantine legs surmounted by lush carved bouquets. Slips of mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, and abalone embellish the seven-octave keyboard. Within, a lacquered iron frame reinforces the case. The felt-covered hammers could have been made by machines invented by Rudolph Kreter, who assigned his patent to Nunns & Clark in 1853. At that time, some eighty employees, including members of the Steinway family, were producing about three hundred instruments annually at Nunns & Clark’s factory in Setauket, Long Island.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
•Marking:
o(Engraved on Silver Plate on Nameboard) R. Nunns & Clark./New York.
o(On Another Silver Plate) Presented/by/George Lowther/1906
oStamped (on Pinblock, Back of Nameboard, Right Side of Keyframe) 8054
o(In Pencil Inside Left Side of Case) Thompson
o(In Pencil Underside of Soundboard) Joseph Gassin/Augt 20/1853
o(Stamped on Lowest Key) D. Perrin?
Provenance
George Lowther (until 1906).
References
•Jayson Kerr Dobney, Bradley Strauchen-Scherer. Musical Instruments: Highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. First Printing. @2015 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New York, 2015, pp. 130-131, ill.
•Makers of the Piano, 1820-1860: Volume 2. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK, 1999, pg. 271.
•“Keyboard Instruments.” Summer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1989), Vol. 47, No. 1, pg. 47, ill.
•A Checklist of American Musical Instruments. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pg. 12.
•Keynotes: Two Centuries of Piano Design. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1985, pg. 5, fig. 2.
•American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1985, pg. 25, fig. 12, ill.
•“Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1978), Vol. XXXV, No. 3, pg. 42-43, ill.
•“Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin – Winter 1975/1976.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (1976), pg. 240, ill.
•Keyboard Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Picture Book. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1961, pg. 48, fig. 27, ill.
Timeline of Art History (2000-Present)
Essays
•Nineteenth-Century Classical Music
Timelines
•The United States and Canada, 1800-1900 A.D.
MetPublications
•American Musical Instruments in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861
•“A Bicentennial Treasury: American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 33, no. 4 (Winter, 1975-1976)
•“European Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs: 1850-1900”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 56, no. 3 (Winter, 1998-1999)
•“Keyboard Instruments”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 47, no. 1 (Summer, 1989)
•Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
•“Musical Instruments in the Metropolitan Museum”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 35, no. 3 (Winter, 1977-1978)
•Nineteenth-Century America: Furniture and Other Decorative Arts
Active Assignment Weekly: Haunted/Haunting
The assignment - It’s a bit early, but show something haunting in your image. Stretch the definition of haunting and show us something “hauntingly beautiful,” “hauntingly familiar,” or just plain haunted.
Restriction: None
Dare: Try to represent two different time periods in your image.
WIT: The shot of the building was taken during a Haunted Chicago tour. This is the Oriental Theater, which is built on the same location and footprint of the doomed Iroquois Theater. On December 30, 1903, more than 600 people were killed during the deadliest single-building fire in the United States. The Oriental, as a result, is said to be haunted and many ghostly shadows and noises are heard throughout. Alas, I did not see a ghost, but my ghostly pale beautiful daughter volunteered to pose in a window of our house taken at the same angle. I then removed her head from that and copied into a decreased opacity layer of the shot I took of the theater. I adjusted saturation and added a cooling filter in PSE.
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Tuesday 3 March 2010, Lambeth, London, UK -
Active Communities Network (then London Active Communities) ran a special 'Well Being Sports Day' in partnership with their large-scale volunteering programme - 'Gamechangers' supported by Nike.
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Taken for "Active Assignment Weekly" YinYang
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Thank you North60 for the cropping suggestion - as you can see, I used it.
Active Assignment Weekly for December 28-January 3: Metal/Metallic
This week's assignment is to explore the challenge of photographing shiny metallic objects. The subject doesn't necessarily need to be made of metal, but it must convey the essence of being metallic (such as having the iridescent and reflective properties of metal). Heavily rusted metal does't count. Look for items like chrome, polished steel, freshly cut metal surfaces, spoons, foil. Buff it up and show me the shine.
Dare: Photograph a spherical object and/or incorporate lots of color
Restriction: None
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WIT: Used my SB600 strobe on the floor pointing at the paper holder with the paper holder in between the camera and the flash. Tried different angles until I got a result I liked. In Lightroom cropped and upped contrast.
Just Dance! Small build-up dance event to a larger dance festival in 2015.
Large upload to complete the album:
Students shared opportunities to get involved and take on leadership roles at the Student Activities Fair September 2 at William Woods in Fulton.
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Flickr Lounge - Weekly Theme (Week 7) ~ High Contrast Light ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
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iPhone camera app panorama, cropped to 16:9 and post processed in Snapseed
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'Portugal's Perfect Athlete' Shanna training at the UK Wrestling academy or 'Wrestle Active' on 30th September 2012.
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