Lot 656
  • 656

Rare watercolor fraktur: Religious text with center medallion, David Kriebel (1787-1848) Probably Gwynned Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, dated 1804

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • RELIGIOUS TEXT WITH CENTER MEDALLION
  • Watercolor and ink on paper
  • 9 3/8 by 7 15/16 in.
  • 1804
Watercolor and ink on paper

Inscribed (translated from German) recto, ink: All depends on God's great blessing,/ and on the grace we are possessing./ Jesus adorns my heart with love/ That to receive your gifts it more.April 2 in the year 1804

Provenance

Chris A. Machmer, Annville, Pennsylvania, 1990

Exhibited

"Jubilation/Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined," New York, American Folk Art Museum, January 17-September 2, 2012

Literature

American Radiance: The Ralph Esmerian Gift to the American Folk Art Museum, p. 221, fig. 191

Condition

Old repairs across mid-horizontal and another points
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