Object Details
- Marshall, John
- Description
- This violin was made by John Marshall in London, England in 1759. John Marshall worked in New Street, near Covent Garden, London, in the mid-18th century. This instrument retains the original bass-bar, interior blocks and linings. The original neck was reset and fitted with a wedge under the ebony fingerboard. Table wear between the f-holes indicates variable bridge placement. It is clear that a bridge was once located 14 mm. below the f-notches, a geometry not infrequently found in iconographic depictions of 18th-century bridge locations. The instrument is equipped with 18th-century fittings, including a solid ebony tailpiece inlaid with a marine snail-shell diamond ornament and two mother-of-pearl eyes. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, two-piece back of maple with irregular medium gently ascending figure, ribs of maple with irregular fine figure, faintly figured maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and a transparent orange-brown varnish.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1759
- ID Number
- MI.68.02
- catalog number
- 68.02
- accession number
- 274966
- Object Name
- violin
- Physical Description
- spruce (table material)
- maple (back material)
- Measurements
- overall: 24 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 in; 60.96 cm x 21.59 cm x 10.16 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom: England, London
- Related Publication
- Music From the Age of Jefferson
- Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014-1019
- Two Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, BWV 1021 & BWV 1023
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Violins
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_605507
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-16b7-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
