Presentation Fraktur of a Double Eaglec. 1815Sheet: 7 5/8 x 6 1/4 " (19.4 x 15.9 cm)
Frame: 16 3/4 x 14 1/2 x 1/2 " (42.5 x 36.8 x 1.3 cm)Watercolor and ink on paperGift of Ralph Esmerian2005.8.400Drawing, pen and ink of double-headed hapsburg eagle, with feathered pattern overall with red and yellow ink. Spread tail wings and splayed legs. Floral elements, top L and R with tulips and leaves. Border 4 sides in red, yellow, black.1545223361David KulpDrawingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.Pennsylvania GermanUnited StatesPennsylvaniaWorks on PapereMuseum - Collection HighlightsBirds 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.
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.orgAccording to Christie's: While the motif of a conjoined pair of birds is common throughout Pennsylvania German decorative arts, the particular similarity of the drawing illustrated here to a religious text signed by Rudolph Landes and dated 1814 (illustrated FLP 239) suggests the Bucks County schoolmaster may be the author of the image shown here as well.Fraktur18101820 2005 8 40 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.
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.orgAccording to Christie's: While the motif of a conjoined pair of birds is common throughout Pennsylvania German decorative arts, the particular similarity of the drawing illustrated here to a religious text signed by Rudolph Landes and dated 1814 (illustrated FLP 239) suggests the Bucks County schoolmaster may be the author of the image shown here as well.Fraktur