Item No: frk00011

Title:
Drawing for Barbra Oberholtzer

Category:
Drawing

Creators:
Scrivener: [Weisel Family Artist (active c. 1838)]
Decorator: [Weisel Family Artist (active c. 1838)]

Creation Place:
County: [Bucks]
State/Province: [Pennsylvania]
Note: Based on design characteristics and family name

Creation Date: ca. 1840

Physical Description: Leaf

Dimensions: 43.5 cm x 22.5 cm

Material: Wove paper; watercolor

Media Type: Manuscripts

Scripts/Text: Fraktur

Associated Names: Oberholtzer, Barbra

Notes:

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The name is framed by a heart that supports the leaves of a large tulip in the center of the drawing. At the top is an eagle holding a cache of arrows in his claws, and a red, white and blue banner in his beak. Several small decorative motifs flank the tulip. This drawing may have been a bookplate.

A drawing made for Francis Weisel of Bedminster Township, Bucks County and dated 1838 has a closely-related eagle motif.

Transcription:

Barbra Oberholtzerin

Translation:

Barbra Oberholtzerin

Provenance:
Henry S. Borneman

Bibliography:

"Weisel Family Artist" in Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), 2^nd ed., vol. 2, p. 799.

Corinne and Russell Earnest, Fraktur: Folk Art and Family (Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1999), see p. 104 for a related example.

Weiser Number: 673

Subjects:

• Animals
• Arms & armament
• Arrows
• Banners
• Birds
• Eagles
• Flowers
• Hearts (Symbols)
• Tulips

Source:
Rare Book Department