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Accession Number

PAG1998.168

Creation Date

1813

Description

Printed Taufschein in three-heart design with springing deer at bottom, red and yellow flowers, small pair of birds above imprint.

Dimensions in Inches

12 x 15 3/4

Dimensions in Centimeters

30 x 40

Materials

Watercolor and ink on laid paper

Technique

Drawn, Hand colored, Hand lettered

Print Shop Location

Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Associated Places

Lynn, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

Category

Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)

Motifs

hearts, deer, flowers, birds

Associated Names

Henrich Bauch, Anna Margreda Grunewald, Aana Barbara, Anna Barbara, Johannes Miller, Barbara Miller

Rights

Please contact the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College for permissions which fall outside of educational fair use.

Source

Ursinus College Library Special Collections and the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art

Provenance

Pennsylvania Folklife Society

Script/Text

German script

Language

German

Comment

On this example, the word “Taufzeugen” (baptismal sponsors) was written as “Taufzeigen.” This is the same edition as 1998.217.

Condition

Good

Bibliographical Reference

Stopp #273

Published

Stopp, Klaus. The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans. 6 vols. (Mainz, Germany, and East Berlin, Pa.: privately published, 1997–99). vol. 2, p. 213.

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Keywords

fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein

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