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This artist and fraktur are on file in the Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, (NEH 475, 7 - 9).
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A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED FRAKTUR-SCHRIFTEN TEXT
SIGNED HEINRICH ENGELHARD, ACTIVE. 1819 - 1836, LANCASTER AND BERKS COUNTIES, CIRCA 1818
In several registers, the top text in blue, red, grey and white decorated lettering above an ink inscribed German fraktur-schriften text over the red and blue indentification: "Michael Schmelker in the year 1818"--7½ x 12in.
SIGNED HEINRICH ENGELHARD, ACTIVE. 1819 - 1836, LANCASTER AND BERKS COUNTIES, CIRCA 1818
In several registers, the top text in blue, red, grey and white decorated lettering above an ink inscribed German fraktur-schriften text over the red and blue indentification: "Michael Schmelker in the year 1818"--7½ x 12in.