DHV:
380
Tourin ID:
HART 5
Size:
Treble
Label Text:
Place Made:
GB, London
Maker:
John
Rose
Date:
1600 C
[None]
Body Shape:
Viol
Current Location:
CDN, Toronto, Ontario
Sound Holes:
C
Collection:
Hart House, University of Toronto
No. of Strings:
6
Catalog Number:
Head:
Male
Previous Owner:
Arts & Letters Club and Hart House, Toronto, 1932-35; Massey Foundation et al., Toronto, 1919-32; W. Howard Head, Vancouver, 1910-1919; idem, London
Measurements:
Body Length:
42.6
String Length:
(49.5)
Rib Depth:
9.2
Upper Width:
20.5
Middle Width:
15
Bottom Width:
25
Information Source:
Morton 2010, pp. 51-53; W. Grunsky to G. Lyman 1/64; PT visit (unknown date)
Literature:
Eatock 2010; Morton 2010, pp. 51-53
Photographs:
Morton 2010, pp. 51-52 (FB+SS, head 3/4); Voix Humaines 2009 (head front); [by TGM: in display case 1/07, front 3/4 (color)]; [unpublished, sent to PT: front 3/4]; [unpublished, from J. Pringle: FB+S body only, head FB+S 3/4 (color)]
Recordings:
Auctions:
Comments:
Voix Humaines 2009 (Purcell)
2-piece table with low arch, 2-piece back, both with double purfling; ribs also have double purfling outlining each of 6 sections. Now has a tenor neck (too long for body); with proper length, SL perhaps about 44 cm. Once had a fold in lower bout to permit playing on shoulder. Fine Ulysses head, almost identical to that now on Caldwells’ festoon Rose bass. Repair inscription: “Restored pegbox, ribs and back to their original form. Made fingerboard, tailpiece and bridge. G. St. George London 1899.” Morton 2010 (from 1982 appraisal by M. Remenyi): neck is modern, pegbox covered with intricate floral carvings and purfling inlay; (from pre-1982 description by B. Pronger): ribs cut down, probably in 19th C., with second fold to allow playing under chin, and pegbox modified; these changes undone by St. George; dimensions (from 1974 appraisal by W. Monical): 42.5, 20.55/14.9/25.0, 9.2, 49.4. Attribution to Rose by B. Hebbert, 2009, based on similarity of carved head and texture of maple on back and ribs to 1598 Rose tenor (ASHMOL 5).