DHV:
604
Tourin ID:
MFA 4
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
London
Barak
Norman
Date:
1713
Label Text:
Barak Norman / at the Bass Viol in [St.] Pauls Church=y: / London Fecit / 1713 [printed except 1713]; Barak / Norman / London / Fecit [stamped on table]; BN monogram in center of back
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
USA
Boston, MA
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Museum of Fine Arts
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
1917.1716 (formerly 274)
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Francis W. Galpin, -1916
Measurements:
Body Length:
68.8
String Length:
67?
Rib Depth:
12.5
Upper Width:
30.2
Middle Width:
23.1
Bottom Width:
37.5
Information
Source:
TGM visit 2/93; museum data sheet
Literature:
Hebbert 2001, pp. 300-01 (1713:3); Galpin 1972, p. 19; Bessaraboff 1941, p. 279
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front [color]); Bessaraboff 1941, pl. XI (front); MFA 1917, fig. 20 (front 3/4); [unpublished, from museum: front 3/4; from D. Kuronen 5/15: back (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Not set up when seen, so SL estimated. Bridge-foot marks above middle of C-holes. Repair label of Messrs. John A. Gould & Sons, Boston, Mass., 1936. Museum dimensions 122.0, 68.5, 30.2/23.1/37.4, 12.5, 68.0. Table ornament Type IV, back center BN monogram, upper and lower Type II.