$3,680
Montgomery County Schwenkfelder vorschrift religious text, ca. 1803 , hand-drawn, watercolor and ink on laid paper, inscribed "Steh auf Herr Gott" (Stand with Lord God) with red, yellow, and blue striped and diamond decorated "S", a variety of tulips, trailling vines, and stylized flowers arising from pots, bears watermark of "P. Bechtel"(Peter Bechtel, Sr., Wissahickon paper mill owner), 13" x 16". Provenance: This piece was the first fraktur purchased by Dr. Shelley, thus beginning his career of study and collection of fraktur by the Pennsylvania Germans. He saw it in a display at Macy's in New York and then purchased the piece from the exhibitor Edith M. Halpert of Downtown Gallery, NY in 1937 for $17.49. Similar examples are found executed by David Kriebel and Sarah Kriebel, both prominent Schwenkfelder fraktur artists. For additional, information, see Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plates 170, 171, and 173; and Fraktur Writings and Folk
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08
