Gragnani Violin
date: label: date made
content: 1783
name: label: maker
content: Gragnani, Antonio
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by Antonio Gragnani in Livorno (Leghorn), Italy in 1783. Working in Livorno, Antonio Gragnani (1740-1795) was one of the few Italian makers to utilize whalebone purfling. This violin has characteristic elongated Amati modeling, distinctive narrow extended pegbox with “compressed” scroll, and whalebone purfling. It retains the original neck, bass-bar and varnish in an outstanding state of preservation. This violin of a two-piece table of spruce, back of maple in two pieces cut on the quarter with very fine irregular horizontal figure, ribs of even medium-fine figured maple, an original neck, pegbox and scroll of fine figured maple similar to the back, and transparent orange-brown varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: Italy: Tuscany, Livorno
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Violins
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: George Frideric Handel. Eight Sonatas for Diverse Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Cora and Laurence C. Witten II
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0173.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0173.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0173
objectType: label: Object Name
content: violin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (table material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (back material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 3/8 in x 8 1/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 59.3725 cm x 20.6375 cm x 8.5725 cm