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Lot 132
Sale 5190 - Collect: Americana
Sep 21, 2023
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Lot Description
Attributed to the Leacock Township Artist A Fraktur birth record and blessing for Maria Schwab, Leacock Township, Lancaster County, PA, dated "1793"
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.