Bookplate for Jacob Arnold
Books
Johann Adam Eyer
1816
2012.0027.014 A
Object Number2012.0027.014 A |
Fraktur
Bookplate for Jacob Arnold
Books
Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle
Johann Adam Eyer
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 .
1816
ET on conjugate leaves 1 and 4 near sewing
Text available soon.
[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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