Instrument

  • ID: 3096
  • Type: violin
  • Maker: Antonio Stradivari
  • Year built: 1722
  • City: Cremona
  • Name: Laurie
 
Label: "Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1722"
Ribs: of medium curl
Table: of medium broad grain in the center, narrowing towards the flanks
Body Length: 35.7 cm.
Center Bout: 11.3 cm.
Back: Two-piece of narrow curl ascending from the center joint
Scroll: of faint curl
Varnish: Orange-brown over a golden ground
Upper Bout: 16.8 cm.
Lower Bout: 20.8 cm.

Photos

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  • front
  • side
  • back

Iconography Index

Black-and-white photos (front, back & side): Mostra di Antonio Stradivari (Palazzo Borromeo - Isola Bella), Turris Editrice, Cremona, 1963.

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

Color photos (front, back & scroll): Alte Meistergeigen: Band III und IV, Die Cremoneser Schule / Antonius Stradivarius, Verband Schweizerischer Geigenbaumeister, Verlag Edwin Bochinsky, Frankfurt am Main, 1990.


Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
...         
Blaise Calame (Paris)    1963     
...         
Francis Drake Ballard         
...         
Mendelssohn family  1907       
...         
Joseph Joachim       1907   
Robert Mendelssohn         
...         

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
...       
Joseph Joachim       1907 
...       

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

Alte Meistergeigen: Band III und IV, Die Cremoneser Schule / Antonius Stradivarius, Verband Schweizerischer Geigenbaumeister, Verlag Edwin Bochinsky, Frankfurt am Main, 1990.

Mostra di Antonio Stradivari (Palazzo Borromeo - Isola Bella), Turris Editrice, Cremona, 1963.

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