DHV:
887
Tourin ID:
VIC 11, KENS 9
Size:
Bass
Place Made:
Maker:
D
Hamburg
Martin
Voigt
Date:
1726
Label Text:
Martin Voigt in Hamburg me fecit. 1726.
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Victoria & Albert Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
1298-1871
Head:
Scroll
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Measurements:
Body Length:
67
String Length:
66.5
Rib Depth:
14
Upper Width:
30.5
Middle Width:
23
Bottom Width:
36
Information
Source:
PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Baines 1968, p. 7; Engel 1874, p. 263
Photographs:
On museum’s website (F+S, B 3/4 body only, head F 3/4 B+S, inlaid FB+TP, etc.[color]); Woodfield & Robinson 2001, 26:673, fig. 12c (front 7/8); Woodfield & Robinson 1984, 3:745, fig. 11c (front 7/8); Baines 1968, fig. 8 (F+B 7/8); V&A 1968, fig. 45 (F+B 7/8, details of lower bout, upper back)
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Comments:
Back of 25 strips of ebony with ivory stringing; ribs similarly, with 9 strips; table purfling also ebony. Neck heel, scroll, fingerboard, tailpiece, and hookbar inlaid with mother of pearl; back of neck veneered with alternating ivory and ebony strips. Matching bow.