Large double bird watercolored drawing executed with an inexpert hand on wove paper. No text. Pair of confronting birds dominate at center, perched on tulip branches growing out of handled urns. One yellow bodied large bird and one bluish green with variously colored heads and wings. Smaller pair of birds at top corners, also perched on flowering branches. They have orange bodies with yellow heads and wings. Three large tulips grow out of vase at bottom center. Along bottom is a narrow band with 14 sections of various colors.
Mounted in a hinged window mat of white. Label pasted at bottom left corner indicating a LCHS loan to an off-site exhibit. The LCHS stamp appears twice on back. Top right corner has "A/A #1" in pencil and "AAM / 22-1" on a paper sticker.
Multiple small scattered brown stains and light soil. Outline of window mat visible at top and sides; top is lighter in color and left side is darker. Center fold lines, horizontal and vertical. The vertical fold has some breakage, esp. the top 4" and bottom 1".Bottom left corner has some loss and back-folding. Hinged at top onto matboard with white window mat. Back side of mat shows rust marks where nails held matboard in a frame.
Object ID
2017.999.12
Notes
Appraised by Rev. Fred Weiser Sept 2, 1988. This piece is marked fraktur #1.
Fraktur is apparently a religious text with multiple flourishes along top and a wide margin at left filled with a large stylized tulip on a thin stem with other flowers and leaves densely filling space. Penwork is black iron gall ink on laid paper. The paper seems to be small pages from a book, pasted together to created a larger sheet. Reverse has strips of paper pasted onto seams (some replaced with later cellophane tape) from a book.
Top line of text is large fraktur lettering "Mein Gott ich Klopff(?) an(?)", with initial "M" enlarged and decorated. Seven lines of script follow, with a line of upper and lower case letters below. Across bottom is "My Child y wil you learned a Was of the bast you must butt (put) your trust of God at last" Final line is tiny script and in the center of this line is written in red ink "Hinerich Sleo(?)". With the alphabet, this piece is like a Vorschrift.
Appears to be 4 small pages pieced together to create a large one. Paper strips pasted on back at seams and some cellophane tape. Multiple problems. Paper overall is age darkened with multiple small brown stains, some large blotches. Holes in iron gall ink, esp. the large tulip. Some paper seams are breaking with with one hole just above center. Edges ragged, torn and folded back. 1' x 2" loss of top left corner; 1" x 3/4" loss of top right corner, and similar loss at bottom left corner. Paper hinged onto matboard with ivory window mat.
