Preview
Scrivener
Pseudo-Otto Artist (active circa 1773-1809)
Decorator
Pseudo-Otto Artist (active circa 1773-1809)
Accession Number
PAG1998.157
Creation Date
1792
Description
Printed Taufschein with colorful blue, red, and yellow birds, floral-and-vine borders, and winged angel heads in top corners.
Dimensions in Inches
12 5/8 x 15 7/8
Dimensions in Centimeters
32 x 40
Materials
Watercolor and Ink on laid Paper
Technique
Drawn, Hand lettered
Print Shop Location
Ephrata Cloister, Pennsylvania
Associated Places
Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania
Category
Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein)
Motifs
birds, floral, flowers, tulips, eagles
Associated Names
Ludwig Bordner, Lissa Margret Gantz, Barbara, Schreder, Barbara Gantz
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
The Pseudo-Otto Artist’s work is strongly reflective of Henrich Otto’s style. His work is much cruder than Otto’s finely executed designs however. One of his characteristic elements is a circular flower with vertical stripes, which appears in this piece twice in yellow with red.
Condition
Good
Bibliographical Reference
Stopp #255.2
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. 183.
File Format
.jpeg
Type
image
Keywords
fraktur, Pennsylvania German, Pennsylvania Dutch, folk art, illuminated manuscript, taufschein
Image Location
Rights Statement
No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only. URI: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
This object has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the object by third parties. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the digital object, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the item available.
