Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1736, the 'Wieniawski'
Violin: 43840
Bearing its original label.
Back: Two-piece
Length of back: 35.5 cm
Upper bouts: 16.6 cm
Middle bouts: 10.9 cm
Lower bouts: 20.4 cm
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Notes:
The instrument was appraised for $1.8 million by Jacques Francais in 1992.Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod, Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection
Provenance
| in 1875 | Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons |
| 1875-1888 | Henry Boyer |
| in 1888 | Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons |
| ... | ... |
| from c. 1888 and in 1904 | Robert Borwick |
| ... | ... |
| c. 1910-1927 | Alexander Henry Morris |
| from 1927 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| until 1972 | W. E. Hill & Sons |
| from 1972 | Stanley J. Goodman |
| until 1988 | Jacques Français |
| from 1988 | Dr Herbert R. Axelrod |
| Current owner |
Known players
Henri Wieniawski, Pamela Frank
Certificates & Documents
Certificate: Jacques Français, New York, NY (1988) #2865.- Certificate: W. E. Hill & Sons, London (1973)
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References
Evelyn & Herbert Axelrod Stringed Instrument Collection, Herbert Axelrod (illustrated)- Italian Violin Makers (1964), Karel Jalovec, Paul Hamlyn, London, 1964 (illustrated)
- Italienische Geigenbauer (1957), Karel Jalovec, Artia, Prague, 1957 (illustrated)
- Meisterwerke Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Fridolin Hamma, Hamma & Co., Stuttgart (illustrated)
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
- Violins & Violinists (1969), Franz Farga, Frederick A Prager, New York (illustrated)
- W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)