Object Number 2013.0031.060

Object Name

Fraktur

Category

Works on Paper

Credit Line/Donor

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

Creator (Role)

Johann Adam Eyer (Maker)
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 .

Place of Origin

Monroe, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1810-1825

Materials

Watercolor; Ink; Paper (laid)

Dimensions (inches)

0.1 (H) , 3.3 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

0.2 (H) , 8.5 (W)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Minardi, Lisa. 2015 Drawn with Spirit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection.
• For related example, see p. 79.