RESTRICTED: extremely fragile. Shown by appointment only.

[Lute] [realia] / In Padova, Michielle Harton.

1598.

1 lute : yew, poplar, beechwood, ebony and ivory ; 77 cm

ivory wood

Renaissance lute; originally nine courses, modified to ten courses by Dolmetsch.
With original paper label inside the bowl, photographed by Dolmetsch when belly removed for repairs, "In Padova, Michielle Harton, 1598"; initials of maker inlaid at base of peg box.
With custom brass mount made by Drew Watt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2009, for Judith Leyster exhibition.

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library. The Collector and the Dream, 1982-1983.
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 1987. Folger's Choice (catalog entry 19)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2003. Elizabeth I (catalog p. 99)
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006. "Noyses, sounds, and sweet aires" (catalog entry 62)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art. Judith Leyster, 2009.

Lundberg, R. Historical lute construction, RL 95
Baines, A. European and American musical instruments, 160, 161
Dolmetsch, A. "The lute" in The connoisseur, vol. 8 (April 1904), 213-217

Italy.

ART Inv. 1002