A PRINTED, WATERCOLOR AND GILT DECORATED GEBURTS UND TAUFSCHEIN

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A PRINTED, WATERCOLOR AND GILT DECORATED GEBURTS UND TAUFSCHEIN
ATTRIBUTED TO THE HANOVERTOWN ARTIST, ACTIVE CIRCA 1784 - 1787, YORK COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA AND FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND, CIRCA 1787.

The central fraktur-schriften inscription relating the information of the birth and baptism of Catherine Mayer, born 29 July 1787 in Frederick County, Maryland above an inscribed blessing, the whole flanked by a standing Adam and Eve, with meandering flowers and winged angels holding a scroll with inscribed information as to the baptism--7½ x 11½in.

Provenance

R.L. Fahs, August 14, 1965

Literature

Lot Essay

footnote to follow.
Translation of blessing reads, "Be at work my whole life through O God, that I renewed may be Keep me faithful, keep me true, Let my love be all for Thee That I draw strength forevermore from Baptism's covenanted store." [translation by F. Weiser, p. 41]

related fraktur for Heinrich Gitt by Hanovertown Artist illustrated in Weiser, Fraktur: Pennsylvania German Folk Art, p. 41; same fraktur is DAPC No. 10.985. This fraktur is also illustrated in Pennsylvania Folk Art (Allentown, 1974), p. 9, #13. Son of William Gitt of Hanovertown, PA. Tillou.