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
There are 7 additional images in the archive which are not available publicly. Please contact us for more information.
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 |
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)
Cozio holds copies of many certificates and other documents, some of which are available to view on request. Please contact us if you wish to view a particular document. (Note that we do not always have permission to share documents.)
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)