Instrument

  • ID: 1477
  • Type: violin
  • Maker: Antonio Stradivari
  • Year built: 1718
  • City: Cremona
  • Name: San Lorenzo
 
Back: Two-piece, with the inscription "Gloria et Divitiae" in the right center bout
Body Length: 36.0 cm.
Table: with the inscription "In Dom Eius" in the left center bout

Photos

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  • front, back & side
  • head
  • f-hole

Iconography Index

Order Black-and-white photos (front, back & scroll): "How Many Strads? - Part Twenty", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, September, 1940, 1940.

Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945.

Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): Italian Violin-Makers (1952), Karel Jalovec, Orbis, Prague, 1952.

Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): L'Esposizione di Liuteria Antica a Cremona nel 1937, Cremona.

Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

Order Black-and-white photos (front, back, scroll, f-hole & C-bout): Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Walter Hamma, Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven, 1993.

Order Black-and-white photos (front, back, side, scroll & f-hole): Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., 1932.


Notes

The violin has an inscription on the sides said to have been executed by Stradivari in compliance with the wish of the Duke. It reads: "In Domo Eius et Divitae," meaning "In his House Glory and Riches."
How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945.

Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
...         
Dr. Georg Talbot (Aachen)    1909     
Hamma & Co. (Stuttgart)         
...         
Unknown        For members only 
...         
Dufresne (Logelbach)  1908       
...         
Unknown  1857      For members only 
...         
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (Paris)      1857   
...         
Sanz         
Grand Duke San Lorenzo         
...         

Current owner Current owner
Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician Indicates that the owner is or was also a musician

Players

Name Played From Played In Played To
...       
David Garrett    2002   
...       

Current player Current player
Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments. Indicates that the musician is or was also an owner of one or more instruments

References

Antonio Stradivari: His Life & Work (1644-1737), W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1902.

How Many Strads?, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago, 1945.

Italian Violin-Makers (1952), Karel Jalovec, Orbis, Prague, 1952.

L'Esposizione di Liuteria Antica a Cremona nel 1937, Cremona.

Order Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst (8th Edition), Walter Hamma, Florian Noetzel Verlag, Wilhelmshaven, 1993.

Order Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., 1932.

Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, New York, 1972.

Order "How Many Strads? - Part Twenty", Ernest N. Doring, Violins & Violinists, September, 1940, 1940.

"Letter from J.B. Vuillaume to N. F. Vuillaume", edited by Rémy Campos, violons, Vuillaume, May 6, 1857 1998.

"Pure Thrill", John Dilworth, The Strad, August, 2001, 2001.

http://kunicom.x-works.de/template1.php?sid=71&position=2002

Sale Book, 1870-1936, The Jacques Francais Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.