Bartolomeo Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù', Cremona, 1737, the 'King Joseph, ex-Hawley, ex-Hanemeyer'
Violin: 40213
Back: One-piece, slab-cut; from the same log as the "Sennhauser," Katherine Parlow," "Pollitzer-Koessler" and the "Stern, ex-Panette"
Top: From the same log as the "Stern" of 1737
Scroll: By Giuseppe "filius Andreae"
Length of back: 35.2 cm
Upper bouts: 16.5 cm
Middle bouts: 10.9 cm
Lower bouts: 20.4 cm
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Notes:
The "King Joseph" Guarnerius del Gesu is one of the stars of the Fulton collection -- a 1737 instrument so famous that it is the subject of a monograph by Chicago violin experts Bein & Fushi. This instrument reportedly was the first Guarnerius del Gesu to come to America.Preserving “voices” of world’s finest violins – Seattle Times
Provenance
| Samuel Appleby | |
| until 1857 | James Goding |
| in 1857 | Sold by Christie & Manson |
| from 1857 | John Hart |
| until 1868 | Charles Hood Chichele Plowden |
| 1868-1876 | John P. Waters |
| 1876-1893 | Royal De Forest Hawley |
| 1893-1896 | Laura W. Hawley |
| 1896-1902 | Ralph M. Granger |
| 1902-1903 | Lyon & Healy |
| from 1903 | Henry Osborne Havemeyer |
| in 1954 and until 1978 | Horace Havemeyer |
| ... | ... |
| from 1978 | Cho-Ming Sin |
| in 2002 and until 2011 | Current owner |
Known players
Itzhak Perlman
Certificates & Documents
- Dendrochronology report: Peter Klein, Hamburg (1998) Dating the youngest tree ring to 1734; rings match the wood of the bass side of the 1737 "ex-Stern" (ID=214).
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References
Bein & Fushi 1995 Calendar, Bein & Fushi, Inc, Bein & Fushi, Chicago (illustrated)- Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesú (2 volumes), Carlos Chiesa, John Dilworth, Roger Graham Hargrave, Stewart Pollens, Duane Rosengard & Eric Wen, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)
- Lyon & Healy 1903-4 Catalog (includes R. D. Hawley collection)
- The Strad, November, 2002, Joanna Pieters, Orpheus, London (illustrated)
Preserving “voices” of world’s finest violins – Seattle Times, July 1, 2007- Private Archives - 10746
- The Hawley Collection of Violins, Lyon & Healy, Chicago (illustrated)
- The History of Violin Playing from its origins to 1761, David D. Boyden, Oxford University Press, London (illustrated)
- The Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records, 1844-1998, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (illustrated)
- The "King Joseph", Robert Bein & Geoffrey Fushi, Bein & Fushi, Inc., Chicago (illustrated)
- The Miracle Makers, Bein & Fushi, Chicago (illustrated)
- The Violin Masterpieces of Guarneri del Gesù - Exhibition, Peter Biddulph, Peter Biddulph, London (illustrated)
- The Violin: Its Famous Makers and their Imitators, George Hart, Dulau & Co., London (illustrated)
- Violins & Violinists, November-December, 1954, Ernest N. Doring, William Lewis & Son, Chicago (illustrated)
- W. E. Hill & Sons Photographic Archive (illustrated)