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Birth and Baptism Certificate of Maria Eliabeth Müller
Printer: Henrich Otto
1783
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, hand colored with pen and watercolor, on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 31.9 x 39.5 cm (12 9/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.784
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1368 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art-fraktur. House blessings Side panels same blocks as no. 56. 783 but restored in pen and watercolor: upper r, long-necked bird in place of parrot; other minor changes in floral sprays. In center printed record; at top in pen and water color panel of flowers, and below pair of mermaids.
InscriptionsLong inscription in pen and ink in center
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 11, 1956 Colls: Unger and Nadelman