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Bass viola da gamba
Richard Meares I (English, active 1676–1736)
1677
Object Place: London, England
Medium/Technique
Maple, spruce
Dimensions
Length 119.1 cm, width 36.6 cm (Length 46 7/8 in., width 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Edward F. Searles Musical Instrument Collection—Gift of Edward S. Rowland, Benjamin A. Rowland, Jr., George B. Rowland, Daniel B. Rowland, Rodney D. Rowland and M.A. Swedlund in memory of their father, Benjamin Allen Rowland
Accession Number1981.748
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CollectionsEurope, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
InscriptionsPrinted label: Richard Meares without / Bishops-gate, near to Sir / Paul Rinders, London. / Fecit 165 [handwritten: 7; 7 also handwritten over the printed 5]; manuscript repair label: Anno 1962 / Extensively Repaired / by / Donald Warnock / 2 Brewer St., Cambridge 38, Mass
ProvenanceBefore 1920, Edward F. Searles (1841-1920); by 1920, by inheritance to B. Allen Rowland (1910-1991), New Castle, New Hampshire; 1957, loaned by Rowland to the New England Conservatory; about 1964, transferred by the New England Conservatory to the MFA; 1981, gift of the estate of B. Allen Rowland, Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1992)
Harke, harke (from Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke), 1607
Composed by Tobias Hume
Performed by Laura Jeppesen