Violin
Technical description: Two-piece maple back with medium flame ascending from the seam, fine grained spruce top with crackled orange-red varnish, the pegbox grafted top the neck, ebony nut, fingerboard, saddle, and tailpiece with one fine tuner; fragmentary red wax seal on lower right bout.
Artwork Details
- Title: Violin
- Date: late 19th century
- Geography: Naple?, Italy
- Culture: Italian
- Medium: Wood
- Dimensions: Body length: 14 in. (355 mm)
- Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
- Credit Line: Gift of Robert L. Crowell, 1982
- Object Number: 1982.388.1
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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