Birth Record for Lydia Kriebel1806Sheet: 13 1/8 x 15 3/4 "
Frame: 21 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 1 "Watercolor and ink on paperGift of Ralph Esmerian2005.8.390Schwenkfelder. Inscribed in central open heart with the sun and the moon. Surrounded by tulips and floral motifs. Elaborate decorative border. At center bottom below heart - rectangle with further inscription in German and date of 1806. Born in 1786.1544943332Gott allein die Ehre ArtistBooks/Manuscripts/Information ArtifactsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.Pennsylvania GermanGerman inscription contained in open heart and in horizontal cartouche below. Translation: "Lydia Kreibel was born in the Year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ September 22, 1786. Elect me to Paradise and let me stay green until the last shoot, in Body and Soul. Thus I will eternally serve you and your honor alone. Amen. 1806" A 136United StatesPennsylvaniaWorks on Paperfrakturreligiousw/c A distinctive penmanship characterized by angular rather than rounded letter formation developed among the Schwenkfelders through their extensive copying of the theological treatises of their forebears. This script is the key to tying Lydia Kriebel’s birth record to a Schwenkfelder source. At the time of Lydia’s birth, Schwenkfelder spirituality rejected any form of baptism; the record of her birth made twenty years later does not mention it.
Stacy C. Hollander, "Birth Record for Lydia Kriebel," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.
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To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgWOPPA GERMAN18061806 2005 8 39 frakturreligiousw/c A distinctive penmanship characterized by angular rather than rounded letter formation developed among the Schwenkfelders through their extensive copying of the theological treatises of their forebears. This script is the key to tying Lydia Kriebel’s birth record to a Schwenkfelder source. At the time of Lydia’s birth, Schwenkfelder spirituality rejected any form of baptism; the record of her birth made twenty years later does not mention it.
Stacy C. Hollander, "Birth Record for Lydia Kriebel," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgWOPPA GERMAN