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Lot 176

An Adam and Eve hand-decorated letterpress broadside decorated by Georg Friedrich Speyer (active 1774-1801), circa 1790

Printed and hand-drawn, watercolor and ink on laid paper, framed.

16 in. x 13 in. (sight)

Note

The printed form attributed to the Ephrata Cloister Printshop, Ephrata, Lancaster County, PA..

For a very similar example see, (1955.95.2), in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.

Provenance

Private Collection

Merican & Peskin Gallery, New York, 1990

Property of a New York collector.

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An Adam and Eve hand-decorated letterpress broadside decorated by Georg Friedrich Speyer (active 1774-1801), circa 1790

Printed and hand-drawn, watercolor and ink on laid paper, framed.

16 in. x 13 in. (sight)

Note

The printed form attributed to the Ephrata Cloister Printshop, Ephrata, Lancaster County, PA..

For a very similar example see, (1955.95.2), in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.

Provenance

Private Collection

Merican & Peskin Gallery, New York, 1990

Property of a New York collector.

An Adam and Eve hand-decorated letterpress broadside decorated by Georg Friedrich Speyer (active 1774-1801), circa 1790