Fraktur and Related Works on Paper: The Pioneer Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Shelley
Fri, Oct 8, 2004 09:00AM EDT
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Lot 43
George Peter Deisert(Adams County Artist, Pennsylv
Estimate: $3,500 - $5,500
Sold for
$4,600
Sold Price includes BP
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| $500 | $50 |
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| $5,000 | $500 |
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| $50,000 | $5,000 |
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George Peter Deisert(Adams County Artist, Pennsylvania, active 1794-1815) - Taufschein, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on paper, for Anna Maria Lang, 1802, Germany Township, Adams County, with central large heart enclosing a smaller heart and alternating red and black script and flowers, surrounded by 5 hearts and red, yellow, and green tulips, stylized flowers and vines, the background, retaining a typical overall yellow stippled decoration, approx. 13" x 17", in an early red and black stippled frame with turned half columns. Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 77. For similar examples, see the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Scott, Jr., Christie's, June 1994, lot 648; and Early Pennsylvania Arts and Crafts by John J. Stoudt, fig. 299.
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