- Baptismal Certificate
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For the 1820s, when the vertical format and preprinted text had become dominant, this entirely hand-produced horizontal certificate is unusual. Unlike B.60.42, which is also a late hand-executed example, this fraktur was only intended to be a baptismal certificate, as the legend “Tauf Schein” at the top indicates.
Related examples: Weiser and Heaney 1976, no. 68, also Bucks County, features similar tulips with little circles and dots, has “Tauf Schein” at the top, and includes the same biblical quote, “Hear, Oh Israel, the Lord our God is one God.”
Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
Provenance[Virginia A. and Richard H. Wood, Baltimore]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1960; given to MFAH, by 1966.
Exhibition History"The Family" The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston May 29–August 6, 1989
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