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Presentation Fraktur of a Double Eagle
David Kulp
Photo courtesy Sotheby's, New York
Presentation Fraktur of a Double Eagle
Presentation Fraktur of a Double Eagle
David Kulp
Photo courtesy Sotheby's, New York
Presentation Fraktur of a Double Eagle David Kulp Photo courtesy Sotheby's, New York
Record Details

Presentation Fraktur of a Double Eagle

Artist ((1777–1834))
Datec. 1815
Place/RegionPennsylvania, United States
MediumWatercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions7 5/8 × 6 1/4"
Credit LineGift of Ralph Esmerian
Accession number2005.8.40
CopyrightThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.
Description

Birds were an endless source of fascination to the Pennsylvania Germans. This meticulously drawn fraktur of a double-headed eagle recalls the Hapsburg imperial arms. It is by David Kulp, a Mennonite schoolmaster in the northwestern townships of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Once a student of fraktur artist John Adam Eyer, as an adult Kulp worked at the very schools in which Eyer had taught, making large numbers of Notenbüchlein (booklets of musical notation), and bookplates for hymnals. He also served as a scrivener, auction clerk, auditor, appraiser, and assessor.

Stacy C. Hollander, "Presentation Fraktur of a Double Eagle," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.

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