Virginal, Andreas Ruckers (I), 1643

Title(s)

Virginal

Object type

• musical instrument
• stringed instrument
• keyboard instrument
• virginal

Object number

BK-KOG-734

Artist

• musical instrument maker: Andreas Ruckers (I)

Dating

1643

Material

• wood (plant material)

Measurements

height 98.0 cm × width 153.0 cm × depth 48.5 cm × weight 35.5 kg

Credit line

• On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap

Acquisition

loan 16-Nov-2015

Copyright

Public domain

• Tasteninstrumente als kunsthistorische Objekte – Cembalo, Clavichord, Spinett, Virginal : "Meine Seele hört im Sehen", Heidelinde Pollerus, p. 93
• Ruckers : a harpsichord and virginal building tradition, Grant O'Brien, p. 267, 292
• Makers of the harpsichord and clavichord 1440-1840, Donald Howard Boalch, Charles Mould, p. 562
• A checklist of harpsichords, clavichords, organs, harmoniums, Clemens Christoph Johannes von Gleich, p. 24-25, cat.nr. 11
• Jeremy Montagu, 'Instrument plans, books, postcards: Bate Collection, Oxford', FoMRHI Quarterly 68 (1992), p. 6-12: 10
• Edwin M. Ripin, Denzil Wraight, G. Grant O'Brien, Howard Ferguson, John Caldwell, Howard Schott, William Dowd, 'Early keyboard instruments', The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, New York, London: Norton, 1989, p. 56
• Grant O’Brian, 'The Numbering System of Ruckers Instruments', Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments Bulletin 4 (1974), p. 75-89: p. 84-85, 89, afb. 11