Birth and Baptism Certificate of John Peter Kluck

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Birth and Baptism Certificate of John Peter Kluck

Printer: G. Miller

1819–20

Medium/Technique Woodcut, hand colored with wash on paper

Dimensions Sheet: 39.7 x 32.7 cm (15 5/8 x 12 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875

Accession Number56.791

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsPrints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 1377 (Folk artists)

DescriptionFolk art-fraktur.Gerburts-und Tauf-Schein. Seven seperate cuts. Angel in profile above two birds on fruit tree left, with two corresponding blocks in reverse direction right. Top center, allegorical vignette and another smaller one below record panel enclosing basket of flowers. Verses over heads of angels and also in record panel. Full page printer's border. Printing limits

InscriptionsNames and dates filled in in pen and ink. LC printed: New-Berlin:/ Gedruckt und zu haban bey G. Miller.

ProvenanceColl: Nadelman from Rheinhold Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 11, 1956