Preview
Scrivener
Friederich Krebs (1749-1815)
Decorator
Friederich Krebs (1749-1815)
Accession Number
PAG1998.158
Creation Date
1789
Description
Printed Taufschein with floral-and-bird borders on sides, textile block border at top.
Dimensions in Inches
12 3/4 x 15 7/8
Dimensions in Centimeters
32 x 40
Materials
Watercolor and Ink on laid Paper
Technique
Drawn
Print Shop Location
Ephrata Cloister, Pennsylvania
Associated Places
Tulpehocken Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Category
Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)
Motifs
birds, floral, flowers
Associated Names
Johannes Riegel, Catharina Hamburger, Wilhelm Stoy, Daniel Riegel, Dorothea Riegel, Wilhelm Hendel
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
Although Henrich Otto decorated identical forms to this one produced by the Cloister printshop, the softened blue, green, and red tones of the color scheme here indicate the work of Friedrich Krebs. Krebs was a schoolmaster whose fraktur work covers many of the heavily German-settled counties in southeast Pennsylvania, although he lived and taught in what is now Dauphin county for most of his career.
Condition
Good
Bibliographical Reference
Stopp #248.2
Published
Minardi, Lisa. Roots: Ursinus College and the Pennsylvania Germans (Trappe, Pa.: Historic Trappe, 2019). p. 65, fig. 3.39. 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, 162 illustrated. Shoemaker, Alfred L. Check List of Pennsylvania Dutch Printed Taufscheins. (Lancaster, Pa.: Pennsylvania Dutch Folklore Center, 1952). p. 34.
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein
Image Location
Rights Statement
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