Scan 63
Cremona: an account of the Italian violin-makers and their instruments, 1894
15 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 41. See the scan on archive.org.
1breast is broader, and the F holes rounder and more perpendicular. The corners are more contracted and the archings higher. The scroll is broad, and the purflings finely worked, especially where they are joined in the corners. The quality and transparency of the varnish are not to be surpassed; the colour alternates from golden to pale red. For the bellies he was fond of using a broad-grained wood, which was always regularly marked. (c)
3106. GUARNERIUS, Pietro. Mantua, 1725-1745.
4Son of Joseph filius Andrae. He worked more after the model of his uncle Pietro, under whom he studied at Mantua. His work is good and is well worthy of the name of Guarnerius. The varnish is less transparent, and the scroll is executed with less curve than that of Pietro Guarnerius. (d)
6107. GUARNERIUS, Joseph Antonius del Gesù. He was born in 1683, and died in 1745. He was generally so called by reason of his labels bearing the sign IHS.
8Joseph Guarnerius Andreae Nepos Cremonae IHS and,
9Joseph Guarnerius fecit Cremonae anno 17— IHS
10It is not known why he adopted this monogram,
12(c) Pietro Giovanni Guarnieri was the eldest son of Andrea. He was born on the 18th of February, 1665. The date of his death is not known. Documentary evidence exists to show that in 1698 he was at Cremona. Mr. George Hart had recently in his possession a very fine violin by this maker, dated 1707.
14(d) This was the second son of Giuseppe Giovanni, the son of Andrea. He was born in 1695. This is the maker whom Fétis states to have worked at Venice from 1735 to 1760. De Piccolellis throws doubt upon the existence of this member of the family as a maker, but Vidal is positive, and cites the fine violoncello in the possession of M. L. Depret, which has "un vernis admirable rose à fond d'or ambré," and a label, "Petrus Guarnerius filius Joseph Cremonensis fecit anno 1739 Venetiis." He also gives another label, of the year 1755. It may be pointed out that the statement of De Piccolellis that Pietro the son of Giuseppe is confused with Pietro the son of "Lorenzo," appears to be a clerical error, the name Lorenzo being written in place of Andrea. This statement appears to have puzzled Mr. J. M. Fleming, who points out in his magazine, "The Violin," this confusion among the names.
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