Oboe, C
Maker
Hendrik Richters
Date1720 ca.
Place MadeAmsterdam, Netherlands, Europe
SignedStamped on all three joints: H. RICHTERS / [trefoil curving to the left]Note: The trefoil or clover on Henrik Richters' instruments has a stem curving to the left, whereas Frederik Richters' trefoil stems curve to the right (see fn. 5, p. 100 of Young's 2500…).
DescriptionEbony with decorative ivory turning and three engraved silver keys. Oboes by Hendrik Richters were exceptional works of art as well as being superb musical instruments.
DimensionsLength: 570 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1988 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesNMM catalog: _As Good as Gold: The First 50 Years (1973-2023)_. Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2023. (pp. 21, 30-31)
"1989 Acquisitions at USD Music Museum," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society XIX, no. 1 (February 1990), p. 12.
"Museum Makes Important Acquisitions Again in 1989," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter XVII, no. 2 (January 1990), p. 5.
Cecil Adkins, "Oboes Beyond Compare: The Instruments of Hendrik and Fredrik Richters," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society XVI (1990), pp. 51, 79, 81, 88.
Cecil Adkins, "Proportions and Architectural Motives in the Design of the Eighteenth-Century Oboe," Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society 25 (1999), p. 113.
Jan Bouterse, Dutch Woodwind Instruments and their Makers, 1660-1760 (Utrecht: Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 2005). Includes comprehensive study of extant Richters instruments, including the NMM's example.
Phillip T. Young, 4,900 Historical Woodwind Instruments: An Inventory of 200 Makers in International Collections (London: Tony Bingham, 1993), p. 187.
Credit LineArne B. and Jeanne F. Larson Fund, 1989
Object number04547
On View
Not on view1625-1675 ca.
