DHV:
1049
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble ?
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Peter
Wamsley
Date:
1740 C
Label Text:
Made by Peter Wamsley at the Harp and / Hautboy in Pickadilly London 17.. [printed]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
New York, NY
No. of Strings:
5
Collection:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sound Holes:
F
Catalog Number:
1990.218.2
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
34.2
String Length:
31.8?
Rib Depth:
3.8
Upper Width:
16.1
Middle Width:
11.2
Bottom Width:
20
Information
Source:
TGM visits 8/92, 2/06
Literature:
Herzog 2003, QT-99; Sotheby’s 6/14/90, lot 283
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front); Herzog 2003, QT-99 (F+S, head 3/4); Sotheby’s 6/14/90, lot 283 (back)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Sotheby’s 1990/06/14, lot 283
Sotheby’s: “Quinton”, but has flat back and no overhanging edges; “later head, neck and fingerboard to original specification,” but visible graft between pegbox and neck. Museum website: “quinton” but also “five-string violin with flat back and viola da gamba outline”. Hebbert (joint museum visit, 2/06): viola d’amore, like Meares at Brigham Young U. TGM: 2-piece table, 1-piece back, both with single purfling. 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side. Fingerboard has ebony veneer with white perimeter line; no tailpiece seen. Not set up when seen; 4-string violin bridge. Museum website dimensions 34, 16/11/20, 4.3, 32 (obviously rounded to nearest cm except for depth), and ditto in Herzog 2003. Perhaps same as one pictured in Peter Gammond, Musical Instruments in Color (NY: Macmillan, 1976), pl. 4 (photocopy from M. Herzog): front view shows F-holes, 2 pegs treble, 3 bass side, FB and TP black with white perimeter lines, all like this instrument.