DHV:
266
Tourin ID:
FOLGER 2
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
George
Miller
Date:
1665 C
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Washington, DC
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
ART Inv. 1048
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Arnold Dolmetsch, -c. 1930 (purchased from him by Mrs. Folger)
Measurements:
Body Length:
71.1
String Length:
70.5?
Rib Depth:
11.5
Upper Width:
32.2
Middle Width:
23.9
Bottom Width:
39.5
Information
Source:
TGM visit 8/92; Monical report to Folger, 1978
Literature:
MacCracken 2016, pp. 194-95
Photographs:
MacCracken 2016, pp. 196 (FB+S), 197 (table ornament); Fleming 2001: VME L33 (table ornament [color]); [unpublished, from Fleming 8/10: front body only (color)]; [unpublished, at Smithsonian: front]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece table, 3-piece back, both with double purfling. Table ornament matches DOLM 5; back has diamond matrix in center, “footballs” top and bottom. 4 nail holes visible in top block; tall crossbars on back at top and bottom bouts; modern bass bar, wooden perimeter linings. Scroll like that by Dolmetsch on Caldwells’ Bertrand–-is this also by him? Not set up when seen, so string length estimated. Monical: neck, pegbox, scroll, fingerboard and tailpiece are modern, also lower ribs. Pegs are original, also much of back varnish.