1695 - Viola "Axelrod"

Instrument reduced in size. Soundboard of spruce, with double purfling and inside a black painted decoration of S; under the keyboard, the remains of the design of a crown (the King of Sicily?). Back of two pieces of curly maple cut on the slab and to narrow irregular and discontinuous curl, descending to the right, with double purfling and inside a black painted decoration of S. Ribs wood similar to that of the back. Scroll of plain maple and original neck.

  • Washington (USA), Smithsonian Institution Museum
  • 1695, Cremona
  • 42.85 cm
  • 20.1 cm
  • 13.75 cm
  • 24.95 cm
  • August Herrmann, Frankfurt-am-Main, May 2, 1928; W.E. Hill & Sons, Great Missenden, May 1, 1979.
  • J. N. Durand 1803; P. A. Kreutzer (London); Clementi & Co. (London); W.E. Hill & Sons 1931; W.E. Hill & Sons 1937; Lewis Bruce 1937; W.E. Hill & Sons 1979; Jacques Français 1979; Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod 1979/97; Smithsonian Institution Museum 1997
  • Henley 1961; Français 1985; Axelrod 2002; Beare 2004; Thöne-Röhrmann 2010
creato:lunedì 4 giugno 2012
modificato:giovedì 23 marzo 2017