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 78
Johann Conrad Gilbert(Bern Township Artist, Pennsy
Estimate: $6,500 - $8,500
Sold for
$7,475
Sold Price includes BP
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Johann Conrad Gilbert(Bern Township Artist, Pennsylvania, active 1785-1820) - Taufschein, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on laid paper, for Michel Aldenderfer, 1796, Berks County, Pennsylvania, with central German script flanked by colorful yellow, red, blue, and black parrots and various stylized flowers, vines, and heart, 8 1/4" x 13" (2 hand stitched repairs). Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 203. For similar examples, see The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia, plates 75, 79, and 80. For a nearly identical example, see the collection of George Horace Lorimer, Parke-Bernet, 1944, part one, lot 378.
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