Oboe, George Astor, c. 1800

Title(s)

Oboe

Object type

• musical instrument
• wind instrument
• oboe

Object number

BK-2018-16

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘G. ASTOR / LONDON.’

Description

Hobo van palmhout met twee ronde messing kleppen. Het derde en het vierde gat zijn dubbel. Gemarkeerd op alle drie de delen: G. ASTOR / LONDON.

Artist

• musical instrument maker: George Astor (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

c. 1800

Material

• boxwood
• kleppen: brass (alloy)

Measurements

length 57 cm × diameter 6 cm × diameter 2.5 cm

Credit line

• Gift Han de Vries Collection, Amsterdam

Acquisition

gift 12-Mar-2018

Copyright

Public domain

• The eloquent oboe : a history of the hautboy 1640-1760, Bruce Haynes, p. 87
• Hobo d'amore : de verzameling hobo's (1680-1980) van Han de Vries = the collection oboes (1680-1980) of Han de Vries, Han de Vries, Helen Tilmanns, Shelley. Mesirow, Rik. Klein Gotink, cat.nr. 20
• 4900 historical woodwind instruments : an inventory of 200 makers in international collections, Phillip T. Young, p. 8
• Loan exhibition of historic double reed instruments, Phillip T. Young, cat.nr. 34
• Acquisitions : fine and applied arts, and history, Dirk Jan Biemond, Menno Fitski, Gijs van der Ham, Maria Holtrop, Sander Karst, Suzanne van Leeuwen, Cristina Muru, Pieter Roelofs, Anna Slaczka, Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, Matthias Ubl, Gregor J.M. Weber, p. 76-79
• Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, ‘The Rijksmuseum’s Remarkable Collection of Oboes’, The Double Reed 49, 2021, no. 2, p. 92-127: 121
• Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, 'The Rijksmuseum to acquire and display the Han De Vries collection of oboes', CIMCIM Bulletin, Jan. 2019, p. 22-24
• Marcello Rizzello, 'Something More about Straight-Top Oboes', Journal of the American Musical Iinstrument Society XLVII, 2021, 29-91: 77, 79