Karl Munch (Southeastern Pennsylvania, active 1799-1831), exceptional watercolor and ink on paper presentation drawing for
Elisabeta Huston in Schaefferstown, Heidelberg Township, Dauphin County, with typical elaborate floral baskets, love birds, angels, wreaths, and floral swags surrounding a detailed interior scene of three women, one in the kitchen, one at a spinning wheel, and one next to a cast iron stove, and a child in a rocking chair, signed lower center
Karl Munch 1799, 12 3/4" x 15 1/2". Pictured in Wendy Cooper and Lisa Minardi,
Paint, Pattern and People, pg. 62. Exhibition: Winterthur, 2011. Provenance: Pook & Pook, Inc., June 1998, lot 225 from the Earnest family.
Condition
Period frame. Small patches to top right corner, bottom right corner and small strip to lower right edge. Center creases with separation.