Violin
This violin bears a label of Lorenzo Carcassi of Borgo from 1752, although this certainly incorrect. The instrument may be eighteenth century from either France or Holland.
Description: medium grain spruce top, two-piece quarter sawn maple back, with a medium curl descending from the center seam. Red-brown varnish. Neck grafted at the base of the pegbox. Beech and ebony purfling. Short, rounded F-holes, arching high and full from the edges. Label and interior coated in reddish stain. Ebony taipliece and rosewood button and pegs, with gold inlay.
Description: medium grain spruce top, two-piece quarter sawn maple back, with a medium curl descending from the center seam. Red-brown varnish. Neck grafted at the base of the pegbox. Beech and ebony purfling. Short, rounded F-holes, arching high and full from the edges. Label and interior coated in reddish stain. Ebony taipliece and rosewood button and pegs, with gold inlay.
Artwork Details
- Title: Violin
- Maker: labeled Lorenzo Carcassi
- Date: 1752
- Culture: Italian, Florentine
- Medium: Spruce, maple, ebony
- Dimensions: Total length: 23-1/4 in. (582 mm)
Body length: 13 13/16 in. (352 mm)
Upper bouts: 165 mm
Lower bouts: 205 mm - Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
- Credit Line: Gift of Evelyn Stark, 1978
- Object Number: 1978.433
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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