DHV:
602
Tourin ID:
MFA 2, LOAN 15
Size:
Tenor
Place Made:
Maker:
DK
Copenhagen
Jesper
Gotfredsen
Date:
1752
Label Text:
Jesper Gotfredsen / Fiolin-Mager i Kiobenhavn 1752 [printed, except 52]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Boston, MA
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Museum of Fine Arts
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
1917.1715 (formerly 272)
Head:
Lion
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Francis W. Galpin, -1916
Measurements:
Body Length:
44.5
String Length:
47.2
Rib Depth:
8.6
Upper Width:
21.3
Middle Width:
15.5
Bottom Width:
25.8
Information
Source:
Museum data sheet; Loan 1904, p. 149
Literature:
Lambert 1983, p. 17; Galpin 1972, p. 18; Bessaraboff 1941, p. 276; Loan 1904, p. 149; Loan 1900, p. 28
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front [color]); Bessaraboff 1941, pl. XI (front); [from D. Kuronen 5/15: back (color)]; [by TGM: front (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
2-piece table, highly arched. 2 crossbars, “circular fillets at the corners”. Repair labels: “Repareret Af Jesper Gotfredsen / Instrumentmager i Kiobenhavn / Anno 1771” [handwritten]; “Restored by John A. Gould & Sons / Established 1889 / Violin Makers, Dealers and Repairers / Boston, Massachusetts” [printed, with handwritten addenda: Cracks reglued & stayed / Taking in sides to match / edges. Aug. 1936]