Object Number 2012.0027.010

Object Name

Book (Hymnal)

Title

Bookplate for Elisabetha Keller

Category

Books

Credit Line/Donor

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

Creator (Role)

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 .

Place of Origin

Vincent Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1789-1789

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; ; Elisabetha Keller, Vincent Township, Chester County, April 21, 1789.

Subjects

Flowers

Materials

Paper (laid); Ink; Watercolor; Parchment; Brass

Techniques

Drawn, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

Dimensions (centimeters)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[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