Object Number 2012.0027.016

Object Name

Fraktur (Bookplate)

Category

Works on Paper

Credit Line/Donor

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

Creator (Role)

Johann Henrich Otto (Maker)
02/05/1733-c. 1799
References: Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes, pp. 312-19. Otto started making hand-drawn fraktur in the 1770s and printed broadsides in 1772. He also used birth and baptismal certificates printed at Ephrata Cloister in the 1780s (the earliest printed date is 1784). He marred Anna Catharine Dauterich, and they are believed to have had ten children, including four sons who also became fraktur artists: William (1761-1841), Jacob (active in Lancaster County, n. d.), Conrad (1770-1857; his son, P. C. Otto, was also a fraktur scrivener) and Daniel (c. 1770-c. 1821; formerly known as the Flat Tulip Artist). (See Earnest, p. 313.)

Place of Origin

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

Date

1799

Dimensions (inches)

6.5 (H) , 3.875 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

16.51 (H) , 9.842 (W)

Object Description

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