DHV:
881
Tourin ID:
VIC 05, KENS 7
Size:
Tenor
Place Made:
Maker:
GB
Date:
16.. ?
Label Text:
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Victoria & Albert Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
153-1882
Head:
Open scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Carl Engel (in 1872, 1876)
Measurements:
Body Length:
48
String Length:
52
Rib Depth:
6.7
Upper Width:
23
Middle Width:
16
Bottom Width:
26
Information
Source:
PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Baines 1968, p. 4; Engel 1876, p. 68; Engel 1874, p. 338
Photographs:
minim.ac.uk (front 7/8); Baines 1968, fig. 2 (front 7/8)
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
5-piece table with single purfling, 2-piece back, “slightly bent inwards near the top instead of being normally half-cut”; “ebony fingerboard with diagonal cross-banded edges in two shades of brown wood” (Baines 1968). On display 10/01: shallow ribs, narrowish neck, open-back pegbox. Display label: “English c. 1660”; Baines 1968: “English; second half of the seventeenth century”; Engel 1874: “English. 17th century.” M. Fleming to TGM 8/10: 3-piece table (center piece wider at top than bottom) with joints under bridge feet, plus wide wing on bass side and narrower wing on treble, probably not staves; if English, probably 18C. Dimensions c48.6, 27.7/15.9/22.9, 7.8, c63.0 [sic, or 53.0?] (back widths 27.6/15.4/22.4, ribs at corners 6.5 and 6.0); “Evidence of [former] backfold, but ribs [now] taper in a gentle curve from bout join to the neck.”