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Birth and Baptism Certificate of Catharina Bauer
1815
Medium/Technique
Graphite pencil and watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 33.0 x 40.5 cm (13 x 15 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.763
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1343 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art-fraktur. Birth and baptism certificate with checked tulips. Born 1815, Hains Township, Center County, Pa.; daughter of Johan Adam and Elisabeth Bauer. Inscription in pen in bordered panel, surronded by ten tulips with checkered bases. Fractur
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 1956)