DHV:
884
Tourin ID:
VIC 08, KENS 20
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Nuremberg
Paul
Hiltz ?
Date:
1639
Label Text:
Paolo Hi... / ...fecit / ...anno 1639 [handwritten, partly illegible]
Body Shape:
Festoon
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Victoria & Albert Museum
Sound Holes:
Flame
Catalog Number:
398-1871
Head:
Female
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Signor Ferraris, -1871
Measurements:
Body Length:
70.5
String Length:
Rib Depth:
12.8
Upper Width:
33.6
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
39
Information
Source:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 155, 178, 182; PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Martius & Schulze 1991, pp. 155, 178, 182; Baines 1968, p. 5; Engel 1874, p. 263; Dissmore 1895, p. 16 (no. 180a)
Photographs:
On museum’s website (front 7/8); Baines 1968, fig. 4 (front 7/8), also on museum’s website
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Cello neck, not original. Pegbox has 6 holes, 2 now plugged; both bridge and nut still have 6 grooves. Table with double purfling and rosette with eagle; soundholes “once wavy altered to f form”. 4-piece back of bird’s-eye maple with single purfling and ornament; fingerboard and tailpiece decorated in ebony and ivory; tailgut now, originally hookbar. Very different from other Hintz viols (label, soundholes, rosette, ornamentation, wood choice); in 1639 he was not yet in Nuremberg or working on his own; perhaps by Busch. On display 10/01 + 8/03: label says female head has 18th-C. hairdo, hence not original. Website: purchased from Signor Ferraris in June 1871. Tourin dimensions 70.0, 34.5/-/39.5, 13, -.