A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED VORSCHRIFT

BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

细节

A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED VORSCHRIFT
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, first quarter 19th century
In three horizontal registers, the top in large fraktur lettering embellished with red, yellow, green and blue diamonds, birds, leaves and flowers above a second smaller single line inscription over a fully scripted verse followed by a numeric and alphabetical band flanked at wither lower corner by red framed green birds with red heads and wings and yellow tails perched curving branches issuing green leaves and terminating in red and blue tulips
8in. high x 13in. wide

出版

Frederick Weiser, The Gift is Small, The Love is Great (York: York Graphic Services, Inc., 1994), fig. 7, p.23.

展览

New York City, Museum of American Folk Art, "The Gift is Small, The Love is Great," 21 January- 21 April 1995.

拍品专文

Despite the visual relationship of this Vorschrift to some Mennonite fraktur, the inscription of the Apostle's Creed suggests a Lutheran or Reformed origin rather than Anabaptist (Weiser, p.23). In this regard, the drawing may relate to the work of Johann Adam Eyer, who taught a generation of fraktur artists, both Lutheran, Reformed and Mennonite, and whose stylistic influence is present here. This Voschrift is included in the Bucks County Fraktur Survey.