Oboe

Willem Beukers (1703-1781), c. 1700 - c. 1730

Hobo van buxushout met drie messing kleppen. Gemerkt: W. BEUKERS.

  • Artwork typewind instrument, musical instrument, oboe
  • Object numberBK-NM-11194
  • Dimensionslength 571 mm, diameter 90 mm
  • Physical characteristicsbuxushout en messing

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Oboe

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-NM-11194

  • Description

    Hobo van buxushout met drie messing kleppen. Gemerkt: W. BEUKERS.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • mark, on the face of the finial, gestempeld: [a solitary fleur-de-lis]
    • mark, on the upper and middle joint, stamped: ‘W:BEUKERS’ W:BEUKERS/ [a short fleur-de-lis]

Creation

  • Creation

    musical instrument maker: Willem Beukers (1703-1781), Amsterdam

  • Dating

    c. 1700 - c. 1730

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    buxushout en messing

  • Dimensions

    • length 571 mm
    • diameter 90 mm

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Gift of J.P. Roda, Enkhuizen

  • Acquisition

    gift 1889

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Documentation

    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Makers of Double Reed Instruments in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', The Journal of the International Double Reed Society 24 (1996), p. 77-88: 83
    • Marcello Rizzello, 'Thoughts on the external development of the oboe in France from 1650 to 1810', Philomusica on-line 22, 2023, no. 2, p. 27-108: 37, fig. 5
    • Jan Bouterse, 'Stempels en inscripties op Nederlandse houten blaasinstrumenten uit de Barok', Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 49, nr. 1 (1999), p. 32-54: 38, afb. 3
    • Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, ‘The Rijksmuseum’s Remarkable Collection of Oboes’, The Double Reed 49, 2021, no. 2, p. 92-127: 102, 121, fig. 7a
    • Rob van Acht, 'Niederländische Blasinstrumente, 1670-1820', Tibia: Magazin für freunde alter und neuer bläsermusik 15, nr. 3 (1990), p. 169-185: 182
    • L.G. Langwill, 'Musikinstrumenten-Sammlung des Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ausgestellt im Gemeente Museum, Den Haag 9. Oktober - 24. November 1952', Glareana: Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Freunde alter Musikinstrumente 2, nr. 2 (1953), p. 1-3: 2
    • Cecil Adkins, 'Proportions and Architectural Motives in the Design of the Eighteenth-Century Oboe', Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 25 (1999), p. 95-132: 108, 111-112, afb. 11a-12a
    • Rob van Acht, 'Dutch Wind-Instruments, 1670-1820', Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis 38 (1988), p. 99-122: 117

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