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Birth and Baptism Certificate of Elisabeth Hens
Printer: Sage
1828
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, hand colored with wash, on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 40.3 x 33.3 cm (15 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.795
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1383 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Born 1828, Medenfrick Township, Berks County, PA; daughter of David and Hanna. Gerburts-und Tauf-Schein. Six seperate cuts with full-page borderof stars in wreathes. Printing limits. Angel in profile left above bird on curving rope branch; corresponding cuts at right in reverse direction. Baptism of Christ top center above record; pavilion below. Five stanzas.
InscriptionsNames and dates in red ink. printed lc: Reading, gedruckt und zu haban bey/ G. Adolph Sage.
ProvenanceColl: Nadelman from Reading Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 11, 1956