ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB SCHERG, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB SCHERG, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

PORTRAIT OF A MAN IN A TOP HAT: GENERAL HOWE

Watercolor and ink on paper, 4½ x 2½in.

Lot Essay

The basis of this attribution lies in several comparable examples of Scherg's work, one illustrated in Pennsylvania Folk Art, p. 16, 17, fig. 48; the other illustrated in Tillou, fig. 15.