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Accession Number
PAG1998.163
Creation Date
1809
Description
Printed three-heart design with wavy floral-and-vine foliage at sides rising from smaller hearts in bottom corners, eagle motif at bottom of central heart, image of small children at top center.
Dimensions in Inches
12 1/4 x 15 1/2
Dimensions in Centimeters
31 x 39
Materials
Watercolor and ink on laid paper
Technique
Drawn, Hand colored, Hand lettered
Print Shop Location
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Associated Places
Pennsylvania
Category
Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)
Motifs
floral, hearts
Associated Names
Christian Risser, Elisabetha Schowalter
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
Language
German
Comment
Because of the blank spaces left for the baptismal information and the surnames Risser and Showalter, which are usually Mennonite, this certificate was likely for a Mennonite child who was baptized at a later date.
Condition
Good
Bibliographical Reference
Stopp #438
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. 3, p. 139.
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein
Image Location
Rights Statement
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