DHV:
316
Tourin ID:
GLAS 1, [GALP 4]

Size:

Bass

Label Text:

Place Made:

GB, London

Maker:

Edward

Lewis

Date:

1690 C

John Betts 1684 [handwritten]

Body Shape:

Viol

Current Location:

GB, Glasgow

Sound Holes:

C

Collection:

Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum

No. of Strings:

6

Catalog Number:

42-68a

Head:

Female

Previous Owner:

Robert Glen, Glasgow (d. 1911); (?) Thomas M. Glen, Glasgow (d. 1873)

Measurements:

Body Length:

70

String Length:

66.3

Rib Depth:

12.2

Upper Width:

31.5

Middle Width:

23

Bottom Width:

39.4

Information Source:

Hebbert 2003b, pp. 39 (L8), 43; Galpin Society 1968, p. 78 (no. 589)

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Auctions:

Comments:

Hebbert 2003b, pp. 39 (L8), 43; Galpin Society 1968, p. 78 (no. 589); Farmer 1945, p. 2

Farmer 1945, p. 3 (front)

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Fingerboard edged with ivory and ebony, also tailpiece. Table and back inlaid (former design floral, exactly matching METRO 11; latter geometrical); double purfling. “Repaired by John Eadie, Houstoun Near Glasgow, Anno 1854.” Hebbert 2003b, p. 43: “labeled impossibly ‘John Betts...1685’ but is certainly the work of Edward Lewis...” [NB: Lütgendorff gives Betts Sr.’s dates as 1755-1823]; very like Vázquez’s 1687 bass except for table ornament. Also lists owner as Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow.