$99,450
Sussel-Washington Artist(Berks and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, active 1760-1779), ca. 1780 - Fraktur drawing, hand-drawn and hand-lettered watercolor and ink on laid paper, depicting Adam & Eve in the garden of Eden, the center with a green, red, yellow, and black apple tree bearing bright red apples with a red, black, and green striped snake encircling the tree, the snake with a bright red head, with Adam on the left inscribed "Adam in paradis", with long black hair, rosy red cheeks and crosshatched decoratiobody with draping floral garland standing on a green lawn with grass and flowers and holding an apple in his left hand, the right with Eve inscribed "Ewa vie mutter..." with long black hair, rosy cheeks, and floral garland draping a crosshatched body, also holding an apple in her left hand, 7 3/4" x 6 1/2". This is an extremely rare and probably unique example from this artist. Provenance: Harry Shaw Newman, The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York City. This artist was named b
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08
