Birth and Baptismal Fraktur for Sarah Opellinger

Birth and Baptismal Fraktur for Sarah Opellinger, Ehre Vater Artist, Berks County, Pennsylvania, c. 1802, watercolor and pen and ink on paper, the design incorporating floral sprays, multicolored columns, tulips, and parrots surrounding the German inscriptions, the lower inscription spiraling around a complicated geometric device, (tears, creases, staining), 12 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. (sight), in a dark green-painted beaded frame.

Exhibitions: Museum of American Folk Art, William Murray and His School, December 6, 1990 to May 27, 1991.