$3,910
Johann Adam Eyer(Deep Run School, Hilltown, Bedminster, and Durham Townships, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1755-1837) - Fraktur decorated copybook, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on laid paper, for Magdalena Kratz, 1785, with an upper panel with a red, yellow, and green tulip tree flanked by 2 birds, over a scrolled double headed eagle, flanked by tulips and a lower section with a heart with an elaborate border flanked by ink jar and quill pen on the left and quill pen in hand on the right, 7 3/4" x 6 1/4". The copybook consists of 3 pages of script. Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 47. For information and many similar examples, see Bucks County Fraktur by Cory Amsler, pgs. 256-261; the collection of Paul and Rita Flack, Pook & Pook October 28, 2000, lots 282 and 284.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08
