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'Back of seven undecorated ribs, five of oak, two sycamore. The five soundholes in the back can each be closed by a shutter, the five shutters opened and closed together by a link, now missing, which was connected to one of the eight pedals. Pine belly, painted with doves, vases of flowers and tripod perfume-bearers amid musical instruments (trophies taken from Delafosse's Sixth Livre de Trophies d' Amour et de Musique, p.3). The handsomely carved pillar and neck are in plain birchwood, and at their junction is a scroll carved with leaves and a female head in Egyptian head-dress'. Anthony Baines, Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Part II. Non-Keyboard Instruments (London, 1978), p.79.
- Date:
1787 (made) - Maker:
Naderman, Jean-Henri [Person] - Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum - Inventory number:
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Paris
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- Materials:Carved and painted pine, oak, sycamore and birchwood
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- Inscriptions:Harpe ARenforcement à sons prolongez à sons ondez ou echo réitérez et à sourdinne l'invention / de Mr Krumpholtz executée par H. Nadermann depuis l'année 1785 AParis. Reinforced harp with prolonged and wavy sounds with repeated echoes, and a damper invented by M. Krumpholtz in Paris. JH NADERMAN / Mtre. Luthier Facteur de l'harpe ordinaIre du Service de la Reine. Rue Argenteiul Butte / St. Roch. a [sic] Paris 1787. 17 J.H.Naderman [sic], Master Luthier and maker of harps ordinary in the service of the Queen, Rue Argenteiul Butte St. Roch in Paris, 1787. M. de Binet née Honteloup / à Dieppe Mme de Binet (nee Honteloup) in Dieppe.
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- Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
- Measurements:Height: 1680 mm, Width: 510 mm, Depth: 800 mm
- View the original record:http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O109135