Sale 5190
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$1,500 – $2,500
Watercolor and ink on paper, framed, bears printed label of The Old Print Shop, New York and typed translation of Fraktur text on verso.
Provenance
Robert Carlen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1966
Sotheby's, The Fred Wichmann Collection of Pennsylvania-German Fraktur and Related Decorative Arts, June 9, 1983, lot 19
Property of a New York collector.
Note
For related work by the same hand see, Pennsylvania German Fraktur, The Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley, Pl. 43.
Exhibition History
Pratt Graphic Center, New York, November 19,1976 - January 8, 1977.
For related work by the same hand see, Pennsylvania German Fraktur, The Pennsylvania Farm Museum of Landis Valley, Pl. 43.
Exhibition History
Pratt Graphic Center, New York, November 19,1976 - January 8, 1977.
Robert Carlen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1966
Sotheby's, The Fred Wichmann Collection of Pennsylvania-German Fraktur and Related Decorative Arts, June 9, 1983, lot 19
Property of a New York collector.
Discoloration, water stains, some bleeding of inks. It has not been laid down, three vertical paper patches to verso, tear to base right side, small losses to lower edge and one vertical split to lower third-left of center. Tiny loss to upper edge.
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