Croydon School
Horace William Petherick
Croydon, 1839–1919
Artist, connoisseur, and writer. Made a small number of violins on a personal model. Author of regular essays in ‘The Strad’ magazine, also The History of the Violin (1893), Antonio Stradivari (1900), Joseph Guarnerius – His Work and His Master (1906), and Repairing and Restoration of Violins \u{2026} — John Dilworth
Biographies
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John Dilworth+
PETHERICK, Horace William Born 1839, died 1919 Croydon, Surrey UK. Artist, connoisseur, and writer. Made a small number of violins on a personal model. Author of regular essays in ‘The Strad’ magazine, also The History of the Violin (1893), Antonio Stradivari (1900), Joseph Guarnerius – His Work and His Master (1906), and Repairing and Restoration of Violins (1915). Horace Petherick Fecit in Croydon. 1891-3
Willibald Leo Lütgendorff+
Der bekannte Geigenkenner und Schriftsteller, Verfasser von Biographien Stradivari’s und Guarneri’s etc. etc. Er hat auch eine Anzahl Geigen nach einem eigenen Modell, das in der Mitte zwischen Gasparo da Salò und Maggini liegt, gemacht.
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