Cittern (Creta)
On display
Details
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Title
Cittern (Creta)
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Artist/maker
Gasparo Bertolotti da Salò (1540 - 1609) -
Associated place
Brescia (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1560 - 1570 -
Material and technique
cedar of lebanon, maple
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Object type
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Dimensions
74.8 cm overall (length)
35.2 cm body (length)
22.2 cm body (width)
2 cm body (neck) (depth)
30.6 cm fingerboard (length)
4.7 cm body (tail) (depth)
45.3 cm string (length) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by W. E. Hill & Sons, 1939.
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Museum location
Second floor | Gallery 39 | Music and Tapestry -
Museum department
Western Art
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Accession no.
WA1939.29
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Further reading
Boyden, David D., The Hill Collection of Musical Instruments in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford/OUP, 1969), 31
Whiteley, Jon, Stringed Instruments: Viols, Violins, Citterns, and Guitars in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2008), 70, illus. 70-71
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