$17,250
Christian Alsdorf(Earl Township Artist, Southeastern Pennsylvania, active 1789-1821) - Fraktur vorschrift, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on laid paper, for Johannes Luen, 1809, with central detailed red and black German script, flanked by panels with double headed eagles over elaborate floral trees, executed in shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and black, all within a green border with blocked corners, a superb example, 8" x 13", retaining an early carved frame with blocked corners. Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 36. For similar examples, see The Pennsylvania German Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Beatrice Garvan, pg. 313, fig. 7; and The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia , plates 257, 258, and 259.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08
