Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1711, the 'Earl of Plymouth, Kreisler'

Violin: 44058

FIT TO SCREEN FULL SIZE

Bearing its original label, "Antonius Stradiuarius Cremonensis / Faciebat Anno 1711."

Back: Two-piece

Length of back: 35.5 cm

Upper bouts: 16.75 cm

Middle bouts: 11 cm

Lower bouts: 20.8 cm

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Notes:

The Hill family discovered this instrument in 1926 in the Castle of the Earl of Plymouth, where it had been sitting for over 150 years.

Henry Hottinger Collection

Provenance

	Earl of Plymouth
in 1928	Sold by W. E. Hill & Sons
1928-1945	Fritz Kreisler
1945-1946	Rudolph Wurlitzer Co.
from 1946	Dorotha Powers Percival
until 1952	Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
1952-1965	Henry Hottinger
in 1965	Sold by Rembert Wurlitzer Inc.
from 1965	Los Angeles Philharmonic

Letter: Rembert Wurlitzer Inc., New York, NY (1945) To Miss Dorotha Powers. Suggests that when the instrument was discovered in 1928 by Arthur Hill, it had not beem played since about 1750.

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Antonius Stradivarius (Volumes I-IV), Jost Thöne, Jan Röhrmann, Alessandra Barabaschi, Jost Thöne Verlag, Cologne, 2010 (illustrated)
Henry Hottinger Collection (illustrated)
Violins & Violinists, August-September, 1945, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago
Kreisler’s Violins, Cozio Carteggio feature, Tully Potter, 2017
Marquis Violins
Private Archives - 10842
The 'Secrets' of Stradivari, Simone Fernando Sacconi, Eric Blot Edizioni, Cremona (illustrated)
Violin Iconography of Antonio Stradivari 1644-1737, Herbert K. Goodkind, Larchmont, NY (illustrated)
W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive