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Birth and Baptism Certificate of Michael Bretzius
Printer: Thoma und May
1830
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, printed in color, with names and dates in pen and ink
Dimensions
Image: 35.1 x 29.8 cm (13 13/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 40.5 x 32.7 cm (15 15/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 40.5 x 32.7 cm (15 15/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.792
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1378 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Born 1830, Pinegrove Township, Schuylkill County, Pa.; son of Michael and Maria. Gerburt-und Tauf-Schein. Seven seperate cuts and full page acanthus leaves border. Printing limits. Draped figure standing left and right of record panel center; seated woman holding heart above. At bottom, bird on leafy branch left and right of rose spray above woman at piano. Verses.
InscriptionsLC printed: Orwigsburg, gedruckt und zu haben bey Thoma und May.
ProvenanceNadelman (Doylestown, PA); Maxim Karolik (1893-1963, Newport); by whom given to MFA October 11, 1956