$3,042
David Kulp(Deep Run School, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, active 1801-1820) - Fine songbook and bookplate, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on laid paper, for Catharina Gerhart 1815, with center oval cartouche enclosing elaborate script with leaf vines and tulips flanked by feathers and brownleafed tulip trees, all within an elaborate scalloped and lozenge decorated border, executed in bright shades of red, yellow, brown, and black, the music in the songbook is hand-lettered, 4 1/4" x 8". Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 44. For similar examples, see the collection of Paul and Rita Flack, Pook & Pook, October 2000, lots 170 and 285; Bucks County Fraktur by Cory Amsler, fig. 96, 237, and 238; and The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia , plates 194-197.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08
