A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED BUCHERZEICHEN

ANDREAS KOLB (1749-1811), BERKS, BUCKS, CHESTER, LEHIGH, MONTGOMERY AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1797

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A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED BUCHERZEICHEN
Andreas Kolb (1749-1811), Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania, dated 1797
The rectangular heart with green hatch-striped and red polka dot decorated border inscribed, "This New Testament belongs to Elizabeth Scheimer...25th day March...1797, in Upper Milford Township, Northampton" and issuing stylized brown leaves with peach and red flowers and buds, all above two brown buds and enclosed in a decorated rope-twist banded border of alternating yellow and taupe, with red corner blocks
6 5/8in. high, 3 5/8in. wide

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Other drawings attributed to Kolb include a birth record centered by a similar distinctive, tall heart (FLP 723); a bookplate for Sara Rossenberger, also in the collection of the Free Library of Pennsylvania; and a heart-centered draing (FLP 620). See also three bookplates for Anna Geissinger, Saloma Brauer and Maria Lederack, all in Mary Jane Lederach Hershey, "Andreas Kolb, 1749-1811," The Mennonite Quarterly Review, April 1987, pp.121-201, plates VII, VIII, and XI; a bookplate for George Bechtel of Hereford Township (Berks County) dated 1792 is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (see Garvan, fig. 5, p.321).