Hi Citternophiles, Ben Hebbert, the guy from Christie's, sent me these photos of the recently-sold ($180,000 to the Shrine to Music Museum in S. Dakota) probably-English cittern, to pass out to the cittern community.
I'll be back in a couple days with basic measurements. I'm also working on a fairly basic drawing. andy rutherford ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Hebbert, Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:08:40 +0100 Subject: RE: that cittern To: Andrew Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Benjamin Hebbert >CHRISTIE'S >Musical Instruments 85 Old Brompton Road London SW7 3LD >Tel: +44 (0) 20 7752 3368 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7321 3321 -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Rutherford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:56 PM To: Hebbert, Benjamin Subject: that cittern Hi Ben, Hope you had an exciting auction today. Sorry i couldn't go. Did anyone purchase that cittern? I've made a fairly crude drawing of it that you're welcome to a copy of. If you could send front back and side photos of the cittern, I could disseminate them (if that's the word I'm looking for) to the internet cittern group; my photos are mostly close-ups and/or blurry. The more I think about it, the more like an English viol that instrument seems, esp the carving at the heel and pegbox. I did get a bit of a look at the label with my camera. The P is definitely there. It looks to be stamped. There's also something that looks like cca or tta at the end of that line. It looks like P###### #####cca. Petrarca! And down in the right corner is written what might be 1593 or 1993 or maybe 1693. Or maybe it isn't a 3?? Take a look if you still have the instrument... andy rutherford - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit www.christies.com to explore special multi-media sale promotions, browse our illustrated catalogues and leave absentee bids through LotFinder(R), Christie's online search engine. This message and any attachment are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
