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Calligraphic sampler with alphabet poem
Johann Henrich Otto (American, flourished 1770–1786)
1770
Medium/Technique
Watercolor, pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 20.8 x 32.9 cm (8 3/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.772
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1363, fig. 373 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Writing sampler (or "vorschrift"). Capital letter "Y" with scrolls at left, beginning seven lines of verse in Gothic letters, followed by six in a running German script.
InscriptionsLR in ink: geschrieben; ll: Von Johann/ Henrich Otto 1770
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 11, 1956)