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Lot 401
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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.
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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.