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Violin
Giovanni Battista Gabrielli (Italian, active 1740–1770)
1761
Object Place: Florence, Italy
Medium/Technique
Maple, spruce, ebony
Dimensions
Length 58.4 cm, width 19.9 cm (Length 23 in., width 7 13/16 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 Number1981.749
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Musical Instruments
ClassificationsMusical instruments – Chordophones
DescriptionTwo-piece back and ribs of maple. Two-piece belly of fine-grain spruce. Regular purfling. Neck and pegbox of maple. Fingerboard, tailpiece, tuning pegs, nut, saddle, and end button of ebony. Yellow-brown varnish. Internal construction: Normal modern.
InscriptionsManuscript label: Joanny Baptista de / Gabbrielly Florentiniy / Fecitiy-1761
ProvenanceBefore 1920, Edward F. Searles (1841-1920), Methuen, Massachusetts; by 1920, by inheritance to B. Allen Rowland (1910-1991), New Castle, New Hampshire; 1981, gift of the estate of B. Allen Rowland, Lawrence, Massachusetts, to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1992)
Excerpt from Prelude, about 1680
Composed by Henry Purcell
Performed by Daniel Stepner