Cittern (Creta)
On display
Details
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Title
Cittern (Creta)
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Artist/maker
Girolamo Virchi (c. 1523 - after 1574) -
Associated place
Italy (probable) (probable place of creation) -
Date
c. 1570 -
Material and technique
maple, larch (possibly), blue stone, ivory, glass, beads
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Object type
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Dimensions
79.9 cm overall (length)
37.05 cm body (length)
23.45 cm body (width)
4.85 cm body (neck) (depth)
1.7 cm body (tail) (depth)
46.5 cm (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.
WA1939.30
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Further reading
Boyden, David D., The Hill Collection of Musical Instruments in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford/OUP, 1969), 33
Whiteley, Jon, Stringed Instruments: Viols, Violins, Citterns, and Guitars in the Ashmolean Museum, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2008), 72; 75, illus. 72-75
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