$4,830
Reverend Christian Andrew Harmon Young(Center County Artist, Pennsylvania, active 1817-1861) - Fraktur birth certificate, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on wove paper, for Georg Wehr, son of Simon Wehr and his wife Catharine 1807, Lehigh County, with blue, yellow, green, and red profile figure of a woman holding a floral spray, flanked by birds perched on tulip branches, stars, and stylized flowers, 11" x 8". Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts , by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 225. For similar examples, see The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia , plates 48, 49, and 388; and The Pennsylvania German Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Beatrice Garvan, pg. 306.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08