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Schwenkfelder Presentation Fraktur
Catalog#: Holiday 2002
Category: Folk Art
SubType: Watercolors/Theorems
Origin: America-USA
Era: 18th Century
The precise handling of the drawn and painted flowers and the use of stylized human faces relate this to the work of Susanna Heebner (1750-1818) and Andreas Kolb (1749-1811).

For related published examples see Frederick S. Weiser & Howell J. Heaney, The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia, volume I, pl. 151 and Dennis K. Moyer, Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of the Schwenkfelder Library Collection, pages 58-60, 74-94, and 263.

Ink and watercolor on paper; Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, circa 1800; In superb state of preservation.






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