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Anna Fisher
Printer: Carl A. Bruckman
1824
Medium/Technique
Woodcut, hand-colored; names and dates in pen
Dimensions
Sheet: 39.4 x 33.5 cm (15 1/2 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number56.793
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik cat. no 1381 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art-fraktur. Born 1824, Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pa.; daughter of Peter adn Susanna. Gerburts-und Tauf-Schein. Seven seperate cuts. Printing limits. Angel with short hair and sharp nose in profile above two birds on curving branch at left; corresponding cuts in reverse direction at right. Cupid holding horn in right hand at top center above record panel containing two vignettes and verses. Verses above angels.
Marks
Watermark: A Rahn
InscriptionsLC printed: Reading: / Gedruckt und zu haben/ bey/ Carl A. Bruckman
ProvenanceColl: Nadelman from york; Maxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA October 11, 1956