A WATERCOLOR AND INK BOOKPLATE

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A WATERCOLOR AND INK BOOKPLATE
PROBABLY LANCASTER COUNTY, DATED 1834

In three horizontal registers, the top centering the fraktur-schriften name "Veronica Borkolter" in yellow, blue, pink, green and red ink and watercolor pigments, with floral embellishements, above a German inscription, over a pink leaf decorated rose bush with perched blue birds emanating from a yellow pot inscribed with the year 1834--7 x 4in.

Provenance

Acquired June 1956.

Lot Essay

This bookplate directly relates to another illustrated in Heaney and Weiser, plate 176, by the same hand and made presumably for either the sister or cousin of Veronica Borkolter. The bookplate illustrated bears a virtually identical inscription, [translation Heaney and Weiser] "Anna Borkolter got this Testament as a present from her grandmother, Magdalena Kreiter, as a souvenir of her. 1839."