Lot Essay
Similar fraktur by Gerhart include an unfinished Vorschrift (FLP 944). This drawing is included in the Bucks County Fraktur Survey.
GEORGE GERHART (1791-1846), ROCKHILL TOWNSHIP, BUCKS COUNTY, CIRCA 1820
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A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED VORSCHRIFT
George Gerhart (1791-1846), Rockhill Township, Bucks County, circa 1820
The rectangular page worked in browns, red, yellow, blue and green in scrolling floral and foliate embellished fraktur-writing in two horizontal registers above an inscription of Psalm 128 and a red, yellow and blue bordered reserve centering a brown and red dappled bird with black head, red wings and blue tail perched on a scrolling brown stem with brown and red leaves and terminating in a yellow, red, blue and brown bursting flower
7¾in. high, 12½in. wide
George Gerhart (1791-1846), Rockhill Township, Bucks County, circa 1820
The rectangular page worked in browns, red, yellow, blue and green in scrolling floral and foliate embellished fraktur-writing in two horizontal registers above an inscription of Psalm 128 and a red, yellow and blue bordered reserve centering a brown and red dappled bird with black head, red wings and blue tail perched on a scrolling brown stem with brown and red leaves and terminating in a yellow, red, blue and brown bursting flower
7¾in. high, 12½in. wide