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Fraktur (Writing sample)
Writing sample (Vorschrift)
Jacob Hümmel
December 31 1815 (1815-1815)
Category
Works on Paper
Creator/Artist/Maker
Jacob Hümmel (Scrivener and decorator)
Place of Origin
Skippack Township; Pennsylvania; Montgomery; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Ink
- Watercolor
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1961.0209 A
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Complete Details
Object Number
1961.0209 A
Object Name
Fraktur (Writing sample)
Title
Writing sample (Vorschrift)
Category
Works on Paper
Creator (Role)
Jacob Hümmel (Scrivener and decorator)
Place of Origin
Skippack Township; Pennsylvania; Montgomery; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Origin Notes
Inscribed "Written at Skippack in Montgomery County" (translation) across bottom.
Date
December 31 1815 (1815-1815)
Materials
- Ink
- Watercolor
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Drawn
- Hand colored
- Hand lettered
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
7.8 (H) x 12.6 (W) x 7.8 (Image H) x 12.6 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
19.7 (H) x 32.1 (W) x 19.7 (Image H) x 32.1 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
H at left. W at bottom. Chain intervals: 2.6 cm; 9 laid lines per cm.
Edition Watermark
none
Coloring
Hand colored with watercolors
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Ames, Alexander Lawrence. 2020 The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania.
• Published: p. 75, fig.18Book: Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach. 2003 This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836.
• Published as Plate 89, p. 132. For another example attributed to Hummel, see p. 133.Book: Hutchins, Catherine E., et al. 1983 Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans.
• Published as fig. 247, pp. 254-55.Book: Earnest, Russell D. & Earnest, Corinne P. 1997 Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners. 2 vols. 909.
• See p. 420 for more info. on this artist. No examples of his work listed.Article: Mass, Jennifer, et al. 09//2005 Materials of the Pennsylvania German Fraktur Artist. Antiques. 168 (3): 128-135.
• Published as pl. VI, on p. 131.