• Serial No: 281
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Catalog No:1984.610.1,.2
  • Makers: Jonas Chickering, James Stewart, Boston MA
  • Action: .
  • Stops: 2 pedals: damper and mute
  • Range: FF-c4 (5 and 1/2 Octaves) 68 Keys
  • Stringing: brass
  • Framing: Wood.
  • Case: Tablet front mahogany case with rosewood striping, on 4 carved, turned and reeded legs. Engraved brass nameplaque in rosewood curved-end nameboard decorated with ormolu neoclassical mounts, folding music rack; with upholstered octagonal revolving stool on tripod rosewood base.
  • Height: ; Width: 178.2cm; Depth:
  • Brass Nameplaque: Patent, Stewart and Chickering, makers, Tremont Street, Boston
  • Original Purchase: Oct. 7, 1823; Mr. Thos. Brewer
  • Information Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Darcy Kuronen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cynthia Adams Hoover, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.