Viola
Object type: Viola
Department: Musical Instruments
Culture: British
Artist: Benjamin Banks
Artist bio: 1727–1795
Artist role: Maker
Artist nationality: British
Date: 1791
Medium: Wood
Dimensions: Body L.: 38.8 cm ( 15-3/8 in.); Body W.:  upper bout: 18.5 (7-3/8 in.), center bout:  13.2 cm (5-1/4 in.), lower bout: 22.95 cm ( 9 in.);  Rib H.:  upper: 3.5 cm (1-3/8 in.), middle and lower - each: 3.5 cm (1--3/8 in.);  Vibrating string L.:  35.2 cm (13-7/8 in.)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Geography:  Salisbury   United Kingdom  
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy and Robert Rosenbaum, 1979
Accession year: 1979