Item No: frk00631

Title:
Drawing (Variety of Birds)

Category:
Drawing

Creators:
Decorator: Anonymous [School of Johann Adam Eyer (active c. 1790-1820)]
Scrivener: Anonymous

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

Creation Date: 3/10/1816

Physical Description: Leaf

Dimensions: 20.5 cm x 33.8 cm

Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink

Media Type: Drawings

Language: German

Scripts/Text: German script

Associated Names: Eyer, Johann Adam

Notes:

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The document is covered with a variety of birds of different sizes, most of whom are perched on leafy stems of flowers. In the upper right corner is a man with tailcoat, top hat and walking stick. On the right side is a man with a long coat and hat who is holding an open book in one hand. The text in German script within a heart is in the lower right corner. The drawing is framed by a decorative border.

Transcription:

geschrieben \ d 10den \ Merz im \ Jahr \ 1816

Translation:

written the 10th of March in the year 1816.

Provenance:
Levi E. Yoder

Bibliography:

"Johann Adam Eyer" and "Eyer School" in Cory M. Amsler, ed., Bucks County Fraktur (Kutztown, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1999), pp. 256-265.

"Johann Adam Eyer" 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. 1, pp. 256-260.

Frederick S. Weiser, "IAE SD, the Story of Johann Adam Eyer (1755-1837)," in Ebbes fer Alle-Ebber, Ebbes fer Dich (Breinigsville, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1980), pp. 437-506.

Weiser Number: 167

Subjects:

• Animals
• Birds
• Books
• Clothing
• Faces
• Flowers
• Hats
• Hearts (Symbols)
• Leaves
• Men
• People
• Staffs (walking sticks)
• Tulips

Source:
Rare Book Department