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Birth and baptismal certificate for Joseph Hartranft

Printer: Gustav S. Peters (American, 1793–1847)
1845

Medium/Technique Woodcut, printed in color; names and dates in pen; on paper
Dimensions Image: 37.9 x 30.6 cm (14 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 41.6 x 33.0 cm (16 3/8 x 13 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.789
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 1374 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art-fraktur. Born 1845, Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pa.; son of Joseph and Sarah. Eight separate cuts and three repeats and full page printer's border with addition of color-printing (red and yellow); printing limits.
InscriptionsLC printed: Printed and for sale by G.S. Peters,- Harrisburg, Pa.
ProvenanceColl: Nadelman from Harrisburg; Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 11, 1956