Lot 638
  • 638

Rare watercolor tunebook for Esther Gross, Johann Adam Eyer (1755-1837) Hilltown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1789

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • TUNEBOOK FOR ESTHER GROSS
  • Watercolor and ink on paper, with paper binding
  • 4 by 6 1/2 by 1/8 in. (closed)
  • 1789
Watercolor and ink on paper, with paper binding

Inscribed on title page, ink: Give Jesus your/heart in joy and in pain/In life and in death,/This only is gain./This little singing tunebook belongs to / Esther Grossin / singing scholar in the Birken / seh School in Hiltown Townsh[ip]/ Bucks County Written/ the 4th December/A.D. 1789.

Provenance

James and Nancy Glazer, Philadelphia, 1979

Literature

American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum, p. 207, fig. 177

Condition

In very good condition.
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