A PAIR OF WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED FRAKTUR-SCHRIFTEN TEXTS

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A PAIR OF WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED FRAKTUR-SCHRIFTEN TEXTS
SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, LATE 18TH - EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Each with illuminated and decorated first letters begining each text in red, green and yellow watercolor pigments and black ink, each with scrolling foliate decoration separating the verses, also in red, yellow and green watercolor pigments--8 x 6½in. each

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A similar fraktur schriften text is in the collection of the Free Library of Pennsylvania, 82 - 1263, FLP# 1196, and is attributed to Christian Peters by Donald Shelley. The basis for this attribution lies in the relationship of an example published by Shelley in The Fraktur-Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Germans, fig. 229, to a signed and dated example in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (see Shelley, fig. 74d and 75).