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William Berndt

1821

Medium/Technique Woodcut; hand colored with wash on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 40.8 x 35.2 cm (16 1/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.778
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Gerburts- und Taufschein, six seperate cuts; Printing limits. Angels and birds on right and left; baby holding letter tc.
InscriptionsNames and dates filled in in ink; lc printed: Allentaun,/ etc/ 1821
ProvenanceNadelman (Allentown, PA); to Maxim Karolik (1893-1963, Newport); by whom given to MFA October 11, 1956