Bookplate for Elisabetha Keller
Books
Johann Adam Eyer (Artist)
Vincent Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1789-1789
Paper (laid); Ink; Watercolor; Parchment; Brass
Drawn, Hand colored, Painted
2012.0027.010
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Book (Hymnal)
Bookplate for Elisabetha Keller
Books
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle
Johann Adam Eyer (Artist)
07/27/1755-12/29/1837
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 .
Vincent Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1789-1789
1. Inscription; ; Elisabetha Keller, Vincent Township, Chester County, April 21, 1789.
Flowers
Paper (laid); Ink; Watercolor; Parchment; Brass
Drawn, Hand colored, Painted
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[Book] Earnest, Russell D. & Earnest, Corinne P. 1997 Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners. 2 vols. 909.
• On Eyer, see pp. 256-260.
[Catalogue] Minardi, Lisa. 2015 A Colorful Folk: Pennsylvania Germans & the Art of Everyday Life.
• Published: fig. 54, p.42