Sold for:
$3,525
$3,525
Fraktur, Cross-legged angel artist, 1802, watercolor and pen and ink on paper, freehand taufshien, the top border centered with a cross-legged angel flanked by birds over German inscriptions of vital statistics, surrounded on three sides by intersecting zig-zag and floral borders, (repairs to paper losses), sight size 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. , in a contemporary grain- painted frame. Literature: This fraktur is illustrated in Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners Vol. I, by Russell and Corinne Earnest, Russell D. Earnest Associates, East Berlin, Pennsylvania, (1997).
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-11-06
