ANGEL GABRIELAMERICAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY | Angel GabrielAmerican School, 19th century

Joel and Kate Kopp, America Hurrah, New York.

Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblenz, A Gallery of American Weathervanes and Whirligigs (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1981) p. 81;
Tom Geismar and Harvey Kahn, Spiritually Moving: A Collection of American Folk Art Sculpture (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998) cat. no. 61, illus. in color.

Appropriate surface wear, losses, bullet holes and repairs consistent with age and use. IMPORTANT NOTICE: Purchasers may pay for and pick up their purchases from any of our Americana Week sales taking place from January 17-20, 2019, at our York Avenue headquarters until the close of business on Sunday, January 20, 2019. After this time, all property (sold and unsold) will be transferred to our offsite facility, Crozier Fine Art, One Star Ledger Plaza, 69 Court Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102. Once property has been transferred from our York Avenue location, it will not be available for collection at Crozier Fine Arts until Friday, January 25, 2019. Crozier's hours of operation for collection are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday. Please note, certain items of property, including but not limited to jewelry, watches, silver and works on panel will remain at 1334 York Avenue. Invoices and statements will indicate your property's location. For more information regarding collection from our offsite facility, please visit sothebys.com/pickup.
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The Archangel Gabriel is best known as the New Testament's angel of the Annunciation, sent by God to tell Mary that she would give birth to Jesus, as recorded in the Gospel of Luke. While he is not described as a trumpeter in the Bible, the fourteenth-century English theologian John Wycliffe first identified him as the trumpeter who would announce the Lord's return to earth, and that association went on to become part of Christian tradition. Weathervanes representing a trumpeting Gabriel became popular symbols on rural churches during the great religious revivals that swept America in the early decades of the republic. Like this example, most were individual efforts fashioned from sheet metal by local smithies.

Hammond, where this vane was found and possibly made, is a small town in upstate New York that borders the St. Lawrence River and the 1000 Islands region. The first church in what became Hammond was built in 1822.