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Lot 56

Hans Jacob Brubacher(Lancaster County, Pennsylvani

Estimate: $4,500 - $6,500
Sold for
$2,530
Sold Price includes BP

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Hans Jacob Brubacher(Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, active 1751-1801) - Religious text, hand-drawn and lettered watercolor and ink on lard paper, the geometric layout with 8 panels of script surrounded by green, red, yellow, and black panels with stars, trailing vines, floral and geometric designs, signed lower right "HIBB", 12" x 15 1/2". For similar examples, see Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 154; and The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia, plate 896. For artist information, see Papers for Birth Dayes by Corinne and Russell Earnest, pages 132-134.