DHV:
1628
Tourin ID:
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Size:

Bass

Label Text:

Place Made:

GB, London

Maker:

Edward

Lewis

Date:

1685 C

Edward Lewis att / the Harp in St Pauls / Allay in London 1714 [handwritten]

Body Shape:

Cello

Current Location:

IL, Raanana

Sound Holes:

F

Collection:

Private collection

No. of Strings:

6

Catalog Number:

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Head:

Scroll

Previous Owner:

Bonhams: “The instrument was purchased by our client’s grandmother about 30 years ago, who was a Cellist at the RAM.”

Measurements:

Body Length:

72.5

String Length:

70.2

Rib Depth:

13.1

Upper Width:

36.5

Middle Width:

27

Bottom Width:

44

Information Source:

M. Herzog to TGM, 11/05

Literature:

Photographs:

Recordings:

Auctions:

Comments:

[Bonhams, 10/31/05, lot ?219

[Bonhams, 10/31/05, lot 219: seen online]; [unpublished, from owner 8/13: F+B body, S full, upper back, C-bouts (before restoration); F+S, back 3/4, front body only (after restoration); label (all color)]

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Bonhams, 2005/10/31, lot 219

Arched back with fold; pointed corners, rounded shoulders, and overhanging edges; double purfling on front and back. Found as a cello, changed to viol at owner’s request (new neck, pegbox, and fittings) by Amit Tiefenbrun, Israel, 2009. Dendrochronology by John Topham shows wood comes from same tree as owner’s other Lewis. Label date unclear: third digit surely 1, last digit resembles a 9, but Lewis died in 1717 so more likely a 4.