DHV:
889
Tourin ID:
VIC 13, KENS 2
Size:
Pardessus
Place Made:
Maker:
F
Bordeaux
François
Gavinies
Date:
1730 C
Label Text:
“[Gavi]niés / [Bor]deaux / f...”
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
GB
London
No. of Strings:
6
Collection:
Victoria & Albert Museum
Sound Holes:
C
Catalog Number:
164-1882
Head:
Private Owner:
Previous Owner:
Carl Engel (in 1876)
Measurements:
Body Length:
33.5
String Length:
32
Rib Depth:
7.5
Upper Width:
16
Middle Width:
11.8
Bottom Width:
20
Information
Source:
PT visit 6/77
Literature:
Museum website (10/10); Baines 1968, p. 8; Engel 1876, p. 68; Engel 1874, p. 342; Engel 1882, p. 22 (no. 157)
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Recordings:
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Comments:
1-piece table and back, both with painted purfling. Neck probably a replacement, with crude pegbox and scroll. Modern tortoiseshell tailpiece and fingerboard. Bridge stamped PANPI. With a bow (164A-1882). In 10/01, display label said “treble” and attributed it to Gavinies. No ears on scroll. Museum’s website (10/2010): “In August 1989 Tim Miller (V&A Furniture Conservation) found ... ‘a fragment of paper beneath a pine block glued by a 19th c. repairer to the back plate.’” Closely resembles 1744 Gavinies treble viol at Musée de la musique, Paris [= E.1435]. Gavinies moved to Paris in 1734 [which is thus a terminus ante quem].