A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED FRAKTUR-SCHRIFTEN RELIGIOUS TEXT

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A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED FRAKTUR-SCHRIFTEN RELIGIOUS TEXT
ATTRIBUTED TO HEINRICH ENGELHARD, ACTIVE CIRCA 1819 - 1836, BERKS AND LANCASTER COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1830.

Enclosed in a rectangular surround and decorated in red, green, blue and yellow pigments with four horizontal registers of German text all above the inscribed name "Georg Etter in the year 1830"--13 5/8 x 11 5/8in.

Provenance

Acquired September 24, 1960, Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania.

Lot Essay

This artist and fraktur are recorded in The Winterthur Library: Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, NEH 480, 2 - 3. Several other related examples in that collection are also recorded, including an 1830 House Blessing (NEH 796, 10a - 12a), and an additional illuminated religious text, also dated 1830 (NEH 268, 16 - 18).