Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1735, the 'Plowden'
Violin: 40418
Bearing its original label.
Back: One-piece; possibly from the same log as the "D'Egville"
Top: from the same tree as the "D'Egville"
Scroll: by Giuseppe 'filius Andreae'
Varnish: Orange-red
Length of back: 35.1 cm
Upper bouts: 16.4 cm
Middle bouts: 10.8 cm
Lower bouts: 20.4 cm
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Provenance
| John Hart | |
| until 1866 | Charles Hood Chichele Plowden |
| 1866-1867 | George Hart |
| 1867-1892 | Louis D'Egville |
| 1892-1900 | Louis Harvey D'Egville |
| 1900-1901 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| 1901-1905 | Baron Johann Knoop |
| in 1905 | Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons |
| 1910-c. 1921 | Enrique Fernández Arbós |
| c. 1921-1924 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| 1924-1929 | Richard Bennett |
| until 1930 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| from 1930 and in 1931 | John Taylor Roberts |
| ... | ... |
| from 1944 | William Rosenwald |
| until 1987 | John & Arthur Beare |
| from 1987 | Current owner |
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: Peter Klein, Hamburg (1998) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1729; both sides match both sides of the 1734 "D'Egville" (ID=417).
Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1929)
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References
The Strad, March, 1989, Stewart Pollens, London (illustrated)- Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesú (2 volumes), Carlos Chiesa, John Dilworth, Roger Graham Hargrave, Stewart Pollens, Duane Rosengard & Eric Wen, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)
- Ars Musica, Aloys Greither, Bayer AG, Heft 9 (illustrated)
- Journal of the Violin Society of America, Vol. XV, No. 3, Samuel Zygmuntowicz, The Queens College Press, Flushing, NY (illustrated)
- The Strad, December, 2001, Laurinel Owen, Orpheus, London
- The Strad, September, 2000, Roger Hargrave, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
- The Strad, July, 2011, Samuel Zygmuntowicz, Newsquest Specialist Media, London (illustrated)
- The Strad, July, 2011, Newsquest Specialist Media, London (illustrated)
- The Miracle Makers, Bein & Fushi, Chicago (illustrated)
- The Violin Makers of the Guarneri Family, W. Henry, Arthur F. & Alfred E. Hill, William E. Hill & Sons, London, 1931 (illustrated)
- The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesù - Exhibition, Peter Biddulph, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)