Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

The Acquisitions

Musical Instruments: July 2011–June 2012


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Bow for double bass

1820–40
Maple

Classification: Musical instruments

Object Place: New England, United States

Accession number: 2011.1981

Provenance/Ownership History: About 1955, acquired from an unidentified source, Bethlehem, PA, by William Zeswitz, Reading, PA; by 1965, gift of Zeswitz to James Fegley, Reading, PA; 1965, gift of Fegley to Wesley Fisher, Mohnton, PA; 1999, by inheritance to his wife, Jayne Fisher, Sinking Springs, PA; 2011, sold by Fisher to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 16, 2011)

Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the Edwin M. Ripin Collection—Friends of the Collection Fund