2 1623 English Harpsichord, general view

2 1623 English Harpsichord, lid

2 1623 English Harpsichord, view from above

2 1623 English Harpsichord, detail of date

2 1623 English Harpsichord, mythological panel 1

2 1623 English Harpsichord, mythological panel 2

Overview

This is one of the most richly decorated English instruments to survive. The instrument dates mostly from the first decades of the 18th century but incorporates a soundboard from an earlier instrument. The gift of the Iliffe Family.

Frogs Galliard – Anon setting of lute music from Anne Cromwell’s Virginals Book. 1638

Henry Purcell – A New Grounde, 1689