Peregrino Michelli Di Zanetto, Brescia, c. 1560
Viola: 40042
Bearing its original label manuscript: "Peregrino f[ilius]. Q[uondam]. M[agistro]. Zanetto."
Back: Two-piece of slab-cut sycamore
Top: one-piece of pine
Varnish: Deep brown
Length of back: 42.9 cm
Upper bouts: 21.3 cm
Middle bouts: 14 cm
Lower bouts: 25.3 cm
There are 4 additional images in the archive which are not available publicly. Please contact us for more information.
Notes:
The sound-holes were altered around 1940 "due to a caprice of the owner, Ray Nurse, who stated, 'The effect of the recutting was to lower the f-holes by 13 mm (1/2 in.). The new f-holes lean in more.'"The History of the Viola, Volume 2, Maurice W. Riley, The History of the Viola, Volume II
One of the instruments exhibited in Brescia in June, 2007 at the "Gio Paolo Maggini Secoli di dettagli" exhibition.
Gio Paolo Maggini, Exhibition - Brescia, Italy, 2007
"Miss Stainer mentions a tenor in the Exhibition of 1885, which, if I am not mistaken, is identical with the subject of our photographs. . . . The instrument, which is of course a " tenore," is, I believe, fairly well known to dealers, and was formerly for many years owned by Colonel Sandys, M.P. It now forms part of the collection of Messrs. George Withers and Sons, of Leicester Square, who kindly lent me it for photographic purposes."
Zanetto, Towry Piper, The Strad, 1917, London
Provenance
| until c. 1875 | Nicolas François Vuillaume |
| until c. 1875 | David Laurie |
| until 1876 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| from 1876 | Colonel Thomas Myles Sandys M. P. |
| in 1885 | |
| ... | ... |
| in 1917 | George Withers & Sons |
| until 1934 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| from 1934 | Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. |
| in 1940 | Ray Nurse |
| until 1962 | Rembert Wurlitzer Inc. |
| 1962-1984 | Laurence C. Witten |
| from 1984 | Shrine to Music, National Music Museum, South Dakota |
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1934)
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References
Gio Paolo Maggini, Exhibition - Brescia, Italy, 2007
Liutai in Brescia: 1520-1724, Eric Blot, Eric Blot Edizioni, Cremona (illustrated)- The History of the Viola, Volume II, Maurice W. Riley (illustrated)
- The Strad 2002 Calendar, Orpheus Publications, London (illustrated)
- The Strad, 1917, Towry Piper, London, Jan 1917 (illustrated)
- Zanetto viola; Shrine to Music Museum