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 8
Reverend Christian Andrew Harmon Young(Center Coun
Estimate: $4,500 - $6,500
Sold for
$4,830
Sold Price includes BP
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Reverend Christian Andrew Harmon Young(Center County Artist, Pennsylvania, active 1817-1861) - Fraktur birth certificate, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on wove paper, for Georg Wehr, son of Simon Wehr and his wife Catharine 1807, Lehigh County, with blue, yellow, green, and red profile figure of a woman holding a floral spray, flanked by birds perched on tulip branches, stars, and stylized flowers, 11" x 8". Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts, by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 225. For similar examples, see The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia, plates 48, 49, and 388; and The Pennsylvania German Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Beatrice Garvan, pg. 306.
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