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On Display: House - Fraktur Room
Fraktur (Drawing)
Reward ("The Diligent Pupil")
1775-1825
Category
Works on Paper
Place of Origin
Saucon Township; Pennsylvania; Northampton or Lehigh; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Ink
- Watercolor
- Paper (laid)
Museum Object Number
1961.1128 A
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
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Complete Details
Object Number
1961.1128 A
Object Name
Fraktur (Drawing)
Title
Reward ("The Diligent Pupil")
Category
Works on Paper
Place of Origin
Saucon Township; Pennsylvania; Northampton or Lehigh; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Origin Notes
Saucon Township was divided into Upper Saucon Township (Lehigh County) and Lower Saucon Township (Northampton County).
Date
1775-1825
Materials
- Ink
- Watercolor
- Paper (laid)
Techniques
- Drawn
- Hand colored
- Hand lettered
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
4 (H) x 2.3 (W) x 3.9 (Image H) x 2.24 (Image W)
Dimensions (centimeters)
10.2 (H) x 5.9 (W) x 10 (Image H) x 5.68 (Image W)
Measurement Notes
H at left. W at upper third. Image measurements by sight, in frame; not in conservation files. Image H and W overall. Chain intervals: 2.6 cm; 10 laid lines per cm.
Edition Watermark
none
Coloring
Hand colored with watercolors
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Hershey, Mary Jane Lederach. 2003 This Teaching I Present: Fraktur from the Skippack and Salford Mennonite Meetinghouse Schools, 1747-1836.
• On the use of small fraktur as rewards, see p. 31.