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"A small-sized instrument of the usual pear-shaped model. One-piece back of sycamore. Belly with inked purfling lines and a rather simple carved rose. The curved ebony fingerboard has twelve brass frets and three capotasto holes. The pegbox is for the normal six courses and has a square finial with a star pattern of ebony, ivory and a dark browb wood." - Anthony Baines: Catalogue of Musical Instruments in the Victoria and Albert Museum - Part II: Non-keyboard instruments (London, 1998), p. 49.
- Date:
1759 (Made) - Maker:
Dickinson, Edward - Collection:
Victoria and Albert Museum - Inventory number:
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London
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- Materials:Planed and joined sycamore back and sides; planed and joined pine soundboard, purfled (bordered) in ink; ebony and ivory inlaid rose; ebony fingerboard with brass frets; inlaid ebony and ivory finial.
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- Inscriptions:Edward Dickinson/ Maker/ 1759, with crowned harp.
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- Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
- Measurements:Length: 67 cm Length total, Length: 29 cm Length of body, Length: 40 cm String length, Width: 27 cm, Depth: 6.7 cm
- View the original record:http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O372411