Marshall Violin
date: label: Date made
content: 1759
name: label: maker
content: Marshall, John
notes: label: Description
content: This violin was made by John Marshall in London, England in 1759. John Marshall worked in New Street, near Covent Garden, London, in the mid-18th century. This instrument retains the original bass-bar, interior blocks and linings. The original neck was reset and fitted with a wedge under the ebony fingerboard. Table wear between the f-holes indicates variable bridge placement. It is clear that a bridge was once located 14 mm. below the f-notches, a geometry not infrequently found in iconographic depictions of 18th-century bridge locations. The instrument is equipped with 18th-century fittings, including a solid ebony tailpiece inlaid with a marine snail-shell diamond ornament and two mother-of-pearl eyes. This violin is made of a two-piece table of spruce, two-piece back of maple with irregular medium gently ascending figure, ribs of maple with irregular fine figure, faintly figured maple neck, pegbox and scroll, and a transparent orange-brown varnish.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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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: Music From the Age of Jefferson
label: Related Publication
content: Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1014-1019
label: Related Publication
content: Two Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, BWV 1021 & BWV 1023
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.68.02
label: catalog number
content: 68.02
label: accession number
content: 274966
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: 24 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 in; 60.96 cm x 21.59 cm x 10.16 cm