Wenger Viola D'amore
date: label: date made
content: 1722
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>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:</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>Gregori Ferdinand Wenger<br>Lauten-und Geigen-Macher<br>Fecit Augustae 1722</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Augsburg
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lex K. Larson in memory of Arthur Larson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0036.02
label: accession number
content: 1994.0036
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0036.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: viola d'amore
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: spruce (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: maple (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pearwood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: 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