DHV:
1045
Tourin ID:
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
Date:
17..
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
J
Hamamatsu City
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Museum of Musical Instruments
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
C-0008R
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Dorothy & Robert Rosenbaum, Scarsdale, NY, no. 285
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.1
String Length:
65.7
Rib Depth:
11.3
Upper Width:
37
Middle Width:
23.3
Bottom Width:
39.5
Information
Source:
Museum to TGM, 6/09; Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 126; [copy of Rosenbaum estate inventory seen at Boston MFA]
Literature:
Herzog 2003, GB-15; Wells 1973, pp. 98-99; Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 126
Photographs:
Uemura 2011 (front [color]); Herzog 2003, GB-15 (F+B); Hamamatsu 1995, p. 16 (side 1/2, from above); Sotheby’s 3/13/72, lot 126 (back); [unpublished, from museum 8/09: FB+S (color)]
Recordings:
Uemura 2011 (English Consort Music: Hamamatsu Museum)
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1972/03/13, lot 126
Shallow-curved center bouts, very wide F-holes, no decoration on table or back. Hamamatsu 1995: Division viol (England), 1st qtr. of 18c; total length 125.0. Rosenbaum estate inventory (seen at Boston MFA): “First quarter of the 18th Century ... modern head and pegbox”. Sotheby’s: 2-piece back cut on the slab; “finely carved female head a later French addition”; length of back 69.9.