DHV:
232
Tourin ID:
DOLM 04 LOAN 5
Size:
Treble
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
William
Turner
Date:
1650 C
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Horniman Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
M19-1983
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Dolmetsch Collection , -1983; [probably] T.W. Taphouse (in 1904)
Measurements:
Body Length:
40.1
String Length:
40.7
Rib Depth:
6.6
Upper Width:
19.4
Middle Width:
14.6
Bottom Width:
23.9
Information
Source:
Fleming 2001: VME 09; Dolmetsch 1978, p. 58; PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Fleming 2001: VME 09; Palmer 1981, p. 28; Dolmetsch 1978, p. 58
Photographs:
Fleming 2001: VME F09 (front body only), L29 (rosette), L36-37 (front), L57 (back, bottom rib) [all color]; Dolmetsch 1978, p. 59 (front); Dolmetsch 1962, p. 18 (front 7/8); Danks 1958, p. 113 (front); Dolmetsch 1904, p. 135 (front 7/8)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Formerly attributed to Meares (by Dolmetsches, hence also by Tourin); probably the same as LOAN 5, in 1904 owned by T.W. Taphouse (and exhibited with 4 strings, dated 1680 in square brackets). Fleming 2001: 3-piece table, single purfling front and back, heart-shaped rosette; back has diamond-pattern inlays at top, middle, and bottom (but different from 1656 Turner treble); attribution to Turner, p. 334, based on body outline, purfling, and rosette. Palmer 1981: head, neck, fingerboard and tailpiece are reconstructions; striped ribs suggest reconversion from viola. Dolmetsch 1978: ribs rebuilt in Dolmetsch Workshops, with addition of walnut stripes; lion’s head by N. Dolmetsch; dimensions: 40.0, 19.5/-/23.5, 7.0, 40.7.