DHV:
235
Tourin ID:
DOLM 07
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1696
Label Text:
[Barak Norman] at the sign of the Bass Viol, [in?] St. Paul’s Church-yd: London Fecit 1696; Barak Norman London Fecit [stamped on table]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Leslie Ward (husband of Cécile Dolmetsch)
Measurements:
Body Length:
67.5
String Length:
66.5
Rib Depth:
11.5
Upper Width:
30
Middle Width:
Bottom Width:
37.8
Information
Source:
Dolmetsch 1978, p. 62; PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, pp. 292-93 (1696:1); Dolmetsch 1978, p. 62
Photographs:
[Unpublished, in Heale Archive: F+B, head FB+S]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Dolmetsch 1978: double purfling throughout; apparently made on same mold as DOLM 6, and has same center back ornament of 4 flowers; scroll by Alec Hodgson. Hebbert 2001 says same as Sotheby’s 11/22/1989, lot 167, but he has since agreed with TGM that this is wrong; that one is his 1696:5. Label: handwritten or printed?; seems too early for “Church-yd:” since two others from 1696 still say “Ally”, as do five others through 1700 as well as Napper’s 1703; phrase “sign of the” also questionable, not known on other Norman labels.