Object Number 1967.0917

Object Name

Fraktur (Birth and baptismal certificate)

Title

Birth and baptismal certificate (Geburts und Taufschein) of Anna Christian Sterner

Category

Works on Paper

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Daniel Schumacher (Scrivener and decorator)
c. 1729-05//1787
References: Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes, pp. 360-64; Swank, Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans, p. 261. Schumacher is one of a few fraktur artists who were also pastors - although he was not ordained by the Lutheran Church and therefore should not have been administering the sacraments (The Earnests provide a rather frank account of his life.)

Place of Origin

Weisenberg Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Primary creation place is birthplace on certificate. Schumacher also lived in Weisenberg Township at this time, having settled on a farm along Schweitzer Creek in Northampton (now Lehigh) County in the late 1750s.

Date

August 9 1765 (1765-1765)

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Drawn, Hand colored, Hand lettered, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

8.19 (H) , 12.87 (W) , 8.1 (Image H) , 12.3 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

20.79 (H) , 32.7 (W) , 8.1 (Image H) , 12.3 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Measurements by sight, in frame. H at left. W at bottom. No measurements in conservation file.

Coloring

Hand colored with watercolors

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Hutchins, Catherine E., et al. 1983 Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans.
• Published as fig. 255, pp. 260-61.
[Book] Earnest, Russell D. & Earnest, Corinne P. 1997 Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners. 2 vols. 909.
• Published on p. 688.