Vihuela (after Renaissance type)

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Vihuela (after Renaissance type)

Donald Warnock (American, 1919–1997)

1964

Object Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Medium/Technique Pearwood, spruce, rosewood

Dimensions Length 99.5 cm, width 27.1 cm (Length 39 3/16 in., width 10 11/16 in.)

Credit Line William Lindsey Fund

Accession Number67.1232

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Musical Instruments

ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones

DescriptionTwo-piece back and ribs of pearwood. Multi-piece belly of fine-grain spruce with binding of paduak (?) and inlays of holly (?) and cedar (?) diamond patterns. Separate carved rose of wood in geometrical pattern. Neck of rosewood. Headstock of nine plys of rosewood and maple. Tuning pegs of ebony (?). Fingerboard of paduak (?) with ten tied-on frets of gut. Nut of ivory. Bridge of paduak (?) with cap of rosewood. Twelve strings in six pairs.

InscriptionsHandwritten label: Vihuela de mano/ en sol/ [in different ink: #1]/ made June 1964 by/ Donald Warnock/ Cambridge Mass; printed below heel: DONALD WARNOCK/ made this 1964

Provenance1967, sold by the maker to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 13, 1982)