DHV:
1521
Tourin ID:
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
Date:
16.. ?
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
Oxford
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Private Collection
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Eagle?
Private Owner:
Yes
Previous Owner:
Margaret Proudlock-Dunbar, Oxford, -200x
Measurements:
Body Length:
37.3
String Length:
36.3
Rib Depth:
4.2
Upper Width:
18.5
Middle Width:
11.6
Bottom Width:
22
Information
Source:
Owner to TGM, 8/09
Literature:
Fleming 2016, p. 98
Photographs:
Fleming & Bryan 2016, pl. 12 (FB+S body only [color]); [unpublished, from owner: F+B, side body only, bottom ribs (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Center portion of 3-piece back reuses wood from the back of a 17th-century English bass, with diamond-pattern designs at bottom and top (the latter originally in the middle on the bass). Unclear when instrument was assembled, perhaps c. 1700; ribs have been cut down, presumably for use as a viola; likely to have passed through Dolmetsch hands at some point; head seems to have been copied from that on GAL 11.