Scan 184
The violin, its famous makers and their imitators, 1887
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1noticed the age of Stradivari as represented by his son, I will turn to other evidence in support of the inventory. In the possession of Mr. Muntz is a Violin by Stradivari, dated 1736, and, in writing, the age of the maker is given as ninety-two. Another Violin by Stradivari, made in the same year, and similarly labelled, is in the possession of the family of the late Mr. Fountaine, of Narford Hall, Norfolk. This Violin has been regarded as one of the instruments found in the maker's shop when he died. It originally belonged to Habeneck, the well-known professor, and was taken to Paris between the years 1824 and 1830. Luigi Tarisio became possessed of some of the instruments mentioned in the inventory found among the papers of Carlo Carli, the banker, and one of these Violins in all probability furnished the evidence of the date of birth referred to by M. Fétis, and both instruments were probably purchased by Tarisio, together with the Violin dated 1716, named by Vuillaume "le Messie."1 The last instrument necessary to notice in confirmation of the date, hitherto resting alone on the inventory, was in the possession of the late M. H. de St. Sennoch, of Paris. It is dated 1737, and in the handwriting of Stradivari is his age, ninety-three years, which decides the correctness of the statement made by Lancetti (upon the authority of Count Cozio di Salabue, who received the information from Paolo Stradivari in 1775) that "Antonio worked up to the age of ninety-three years."
3In the absence of direct information concerning the life
51 The information which M. Fétis gives of this Violin was based on the inventory of Carlo Carli. It will interest its present possessor, M. Alard, to learn that it is also mentioned in the correspondence between Count Cozio and Lancetti.
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