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Birth and Baptism Certificate of Waschinton Sauer


Medium/Technique Wood cut, hand-colored on paper Names and dates in pen
Dimensions Sheet: 41.0 x 33.5 cm (16 1/8 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 Number62.149
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Karolik cat. no 1375 (Folk artists)
DescriptionFolk art- fraktur. Born 1819, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pa.; son of Joseph and Elisabeth. Identical angel full front left and right of record panel. Eagle with shield at top flanked by stanza of poem in heart left and right. Lower left, cherub with garland; lower right, cherub with lyre; lower center, two fruit vignettes. In center of record panel, winged cherub with branches. Another horizontal panel below record with more verses.
InscriptionsIn panel lower center printed: Harrisburg, Gedruckt bey John S. Wiestling.
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA June 8, 1964; Accessioned Feburary 14, 1962