Wenger Viola D'amore
Wenger Viola D'amore
- Description (Brief)
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This viola d’amore was made by Gregori Ferdinand Wenger in Augsburg, Germany, in 1722. It is a six-string instrument with six sympathetic strings, made of a two-piece spruce top, two-piece maple, ribs of similar material, head, pegbox and neck are of one piece of pearwood, and gold-brown varnish. The pegbox is ornamented with a carved blindfolded cherub and the top has a pierced carved rose of vine-like design below the fingerboard. There is a label inside the instrument:
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Gregori Ferdinand Wenger
Lauten-und Geigen-Macher
Fecit Augustae 1722 - Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- viola d'amore
- date made
- 1722
- place made
- Germany: Bavaria, Augsburg
- Physical Description
- spruce (overall material)
- maple (overall material)
- pearwood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 30 1/2 in x 9 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 77.47 cm x 23.495 cm x 10.795 cm
- ID Number
- 1994.0036.02
- accession number
- 1994.0036
- catalog number
- 1994.0036.02
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lex K. Larson in memory of Arthur Larson
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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