Fraktur

Museum Object Number 2012.0027.014 A

Object Name

Fraktur

Title

Bookplate for Jacob Arnold

Category

Books

Collection

Collection of Pastor Frederick S. Weiser

Credit Line/Donor

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle

Creator (Role)

Johann Adam Eyer

Creator Notes

References: Amsler, Bucks County Fraktur, see pp. 256-61; Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes, pp. 134-41. The Earnests note that "Eyer's artistic influence spread so wide, it is sometimes difficult to determine what was his work and what should be attributed to others." However, he rarely made birth and baptismal certificates. (See Earnest, pp. 135-6.) Eyer, a Lutheran, spent most of his forty-year teaching career in Mennonite schools in Bucks and neighboring counties. One of his pupils was Mennonite fraktur artist David Kulp .

Date of Birth

07/27/1755

Date of Death

12/29/1837

Date

1816

Dimensions (inches)

Dimensions (centimeters)

Watermark

ET on conjugate leaves 1 and 4 near sewing

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Catalogue] Minardi, Lisa. 2015 A Colorful Folk: Pennsylvania Germans & the Art of Everyday Life.
• Published: fig. 70, p.53
[Thesis] Ames, Alexander Lawrence. 2014 Heavenly Handwriting, Teutonic Type: Faith & Script in German Pennsylvania, ca. 1683-1855. M.A. University of Delaware Winterthur Program in American Material Culture
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