DHV:
1314
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
George
Gill
Date:
16..
Label Text:
George Gill [handwritten]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
-4
Collection:
Horniman Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
15.10.48/35
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Percy Bull, London, -1948
Measurements:
Body Length:
31.2
String Length:
Rib Depth:
5.7
Upper Width:
15.7
Middle Width:
11.6
Bottom Width:
19.1
Information
Source:
Fleming 2001: VME 01
Literature:
Fleming 2016, p. 99; Fleming 2001: VME 01
Photographs:
Fleming & Bryan 2016, pl. 13 (back and lower ribs [color], p. 67 (label), p. 100 (purfling details); Fleming 2001: VME F01 (front body only), L15 (back, body only), 16-19 (details of decoration) [all color]; www.minim.ac.uk (FB+S, head F+S, many details of decoration, label [color]); [unpublished, from M. Fleming: FB+S, label (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Fleming 2001: pardessus? Made from pieces of a much larger instrument (bass or large tenor viol), as revealed by decoration designs. 6-piece table with single purfling; back has none; neck not original; modern violin-style pegbox and scroll. Wood of back very similar to Ashmolean’s festooned Rose, with purfled arabesques in exactly the same style. Label probably not old but perhaps a reproduction. Probably made between 1608/9 and 1641 (p. 220).