ATTRIBUTED TO THE DURHAM TOWNSHIP ARTIST (active circa 1823-1825),
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
ATTRIBUTED TO THE DURHAM TOWNSHIP ARTIST (active circa 1823-1825), Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Birth and Baptismal Certificates for Elizabeth (December 1818, Bucks County) and Catarina Telles (February 1821, Bucks County)

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ATTRIBUTED TO THE DURHAM TOWNSHIP ARTIST (active circa 1823-1825),
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Birth and Baptismal Certificates for Elizabeth (December 1818, Bucks County) and Catarina Telles (February 1821, Bucks County)
watercolor and ink on paper
8x13in. (2)
Provenance
Barry Hogan
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Please note The Durham Township Artist is also known as Bernard Mission, active circa 1808-1825.

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While the identity of this artist is unknown, he was given his moniker because he wrote Durham at the bottom of many of his works. For a further discussion of this artist see Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnst Papers for Birth Dayes (East Berlin,Pennsylvania, 1997), p. 206-7

For other related works by this artist see Frederic S. Weiser and Howell J. Heaney. THe Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1976) 68-71 and 338 and 339.


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