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Viola by Benjamin Banks
The Metropolitan Museum of ArtPublic domain

Viola

Benjamin Banks · 1791

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Artist

Benjamin Banks

Date

1791

Medium

Wood

Dimensions

Body L.: 38.8 cm ( 15-3/8 in.); Body W.: upper bout: 18.5 (7-3/8 in.), center bout: 13.2 cm (5-1/4 in.), lower bout: 22.95 cm ( 9 in.); Rib H.: upper: 3.5 cm (1-3/8 in.), middle and lower - each: 3.5 cm (1--3/8 in.); Vibrating string L.: 35.2 cm (13-7/8 in.)

Classification

Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted

Department

Musical Instruments

Culture / origin

British

Credit line

Gift of Dorothy and Robert Rosenbaum, 1979

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Artist authority

Benjamin Banks

English violin-maker (1750–1795)

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Q16146748

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