Lot Essay
This drawing is included in the Bucks County Fraktur Survey.
GEORGE GERHART (1791-1846), ROCKHILL TOWNSHIP, BUCKS COUNTY, UPPER MILFORD TOWNSHIP, LEHIGH COUNTY, OR WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1820-1840
Details
A WATERCOLOR AND INK DRAWING
George Gerhart (1791-1846), Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Upper Milford Township, Lehigh COunty, or Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1820-1840
Centering a bursting red, green and yellow stylized flower on striped similarly colored leafy splayed double-stem flanked by facing red and green dot-striped birds with red wings and red, green and yellow tails, enclosed by scrolling red, green and yellow stylized tulips, the whole surrounded by a green and yellow triple-border with red outlined and quartered corner blocks
4 3/8in. high, 4in. wide
George Gerhart (1791-1846), Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Upper Milford Township, Lehigh COunty, or Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1820-1840
Centering a bursting red, green and yellow stylized flower on striped similarly colored leafy splayed double-stem flanked by facing red and green dot-striped birds with red wings and red, green and yellow tails, enclosed by scrolling red, green and yellow stylized tulips, the whole surrounded by a green and yellow triple-border with red outlined and quartered corner blocks
4 3/8in. high, 4in. wide
Literature
Frederick Weiser, The Gift is Small, The Love is Great (York: York Graphic Services, Inc., 1994), fig. 25, p.42.
Exhibited
New York City, Museum of American Folk Art, "The Gift is Small, The Love is Great," 21 January-21 April, 1995.