Johannes Ernst Spangenberg(Easton Bible Artist, Southeastern Pennsylvania, active 1774-1812) - Taufschein, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on laid paper, for Peter Seib, Forks Township, Northampton County 1797, the upper section with 3 plump musicians playing horns flanked by red, blue, orange, and green floral trees, of script and a lower section with 2 hearts flanked by fanciful birds with various decorations, an orange, green, and blue tulip tree and a floral tree, a very fine example, 16" x 13". Provenance: George Horace Lorimer collection. Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 208. For similar examples and information on the artist, see Bucks County Fraktur by Cory Amsler, pgs. 206-208; and Pook & Pook April 2002, lot 490.