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Scrivener
Sarah Bixler
Decorator
Sarah Bixler
Accession Number
PAG2002.0150
Date Range
1831-1840
Description
Small drawing with text in German and English, images of two birds with pale blue wings, yellow sun, and tulips.
Dimensions in Inches
3 x 6 3/4
Dimensions in Centimeters
8 x 17
Materials
Watercolor and ink on paper
Technique
Drawn, Hand colored, Hand lettered
Associated Places
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Category
Drawing or Reward of merit
Motifs
tulips, sunflowers, flowers, music notes, birds
Associated Names
Egelmann
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
Fraktur lettering, German script, English script
Language
German, English
Transcription
Die Himmelstochter Sc[hr]eibekunst
Erwirbt sich aller Menschen gunst
Ist unentbährlich jedermann,
Lährt wie man schreibent reden kan
Sie spricht mit Freunden in der Ferne
O Kauf dis Buch und Schr[e]ib u. lerne
Translation
Hail Youth Here use these copys right
They shew quite simple how to write
Learn but the letters form by heart
Then soon you’L gain this noble art
And know how magis lines are drawn
Come buy this book before, t is gone
Comment
This piece is copied very closely from the cover of C.F. Egelmann’s 1831 edition of Deutsche und Englische Vorschriften für die Jugend, a popular penmanship manual. Egelmann used his creative genius to combine appealing aesthetic design with both spiritual and commercial text, encouraging people to “come buy this book” in order to learn the “noble art” of handwriting. The two birds drawn here are also copied from the cover of Egelmann’s booklet.
Condition
Good
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, drawing
Image Location
Rights Statement
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