Identification 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.
Creation Artist musical instrument maker: George Astor (mentioned on object) Place London Dating c. 1800
Material and Technique Material boxwood kleppen: brass (alloy) Measurements length 57 cm × diameter 6 cm × diameter 2.5 cm
Acquisition and rights Credit line Gift Han de Vries Collection, Amsterdam Acquisition gift 12-Mar-2018 Copyright Public domain
Documentation The eloquent oboe, Bruce Haynes, p. 87 Hobo d'amore, Han de Vries (hoboïst), cat.nr. 20 4900 historical woodwind instruments, Phillip T. Young, p. 8 Loan exhibition of historic double reed instruments, Phillip T. Young, cat.nr. 34 Acquisitions, 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
Persistent URL To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.703238
