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Birth and baptism certificate of Anmaria Bensinger, born 1783
after 1783
Medium/Technique
Watercolor, pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.8 x 33cm (8 3/16 x 13 in.)
Framed: 31.1 x 41.3 cm (12 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)
Framed: 31.1 x 41.3 cm (12 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number50.3837
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1344, fig. 362 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Birth certificate. Born 1783, Brunswick Township, Berks County, PA; daughter of Fridrich and Margerd Magdalena Bensinger. Floral ornament around pen inscription with heading: christlich geburt und Taugschein; large parrot left and right. Border. Possibly by John Conrad Gilbert.
Marks
Watermark: fleur- de- lis
InscriptionsInscription, pen: "Christilich geburt und Tauf scheim / Anmaria Bensingerin is von Christlich der Evan -/ gelischen Lutherishen Religion zu gethaen Eltern / . . . . ."
on verso in pen: Geheiratet den 3 Mertz 1801/ Mit Christian Rauz (?)
on verso in pen: Geheiratet den 3 Mertz 1801/ Mit Christian Rauz (?)
Provenance1950, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 1950)