Instrument

 
Back: Two-piece; contains the only original Guarneri bass bar known to still exit.
Body Length: 24.71 cm.
Center Bout: 7.52 cm.
Scroll: 1840c by Lott
Upper Bout: 11.42 cm.
Lower Bout: 13.94 cm.

Iconography Index

Color photos (front & back): Joseph Guarnerius "del Gesù", Charles Beare, Bruce Carlson & Andrew Mosconi, Commune di Cremona, Cremona, 1995.

Color photos (front & back): Kleine Geigen - Grosse Meister (Exhibition, Aachen, May 1995), Verband Deutscher Geigenbauer und Bogenmacher, Aachen, 1995.

Color photos (front & back): The Late Cremonese Violin Makers, Dmitry Gindin, Editioni Novecento, Cremona, 2002.


Notes

One of two small-sized instruments by del Gesu, probably made for a dancing master.
Joseph Guarnerius "del Gesù", Charles Beare, Bruce Carlson & Andrew Mosconi, Commune di Cremona, Cremona, 1995.
The label from this instrument is currently at the Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota.
Kleine Geigen - Grosse Meister (Exhibition, Aachen, May 1995), Verband Deutscher Geigenbauer und Bogenmacher, Aachen, 1995.
Instrument #96 at the South Kensington Special Exhibition in 1872.
Catalogue of the Special Exhibition at South Kensington, England, Carl Engel, London, 1872.

Provenance

Owner Owned From Owned In Owned Till Price paid
...         
J. & A. Beare    1987     
...         
W.E. Hill & Sons  1902       
Lord Amherst of Hackney      1902   
Andrew Fountaine (Narford Hall)    1872     
Andrew Fountaine (Narford Hall)    1844     
...         
Count Cozio di Salabue  1804       
Giacomo Antonio Monzino (Milan)      1804   
...         

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

References

Catalogue of the Special Exhibition at South Kensington, England, Carl Engel, London, 1872.

Joseph Guarnerius "del Gesù", Charles Beare, Bruce Carlson & Andrew Mosconi, Commune di Cremona, Cremona, 1995.

Kleine Geigen - Grosse Meister (Exhibition, Aachen, May 1995), Verband Deutscher Geigenbauer und Bogenmacher, Aachen, 1995.

The Late Cremonese Violin Makers, Dmitry Gindin, Editioni Novecento, Cremona, 2002.