Description:
Framed Fraktur Birth Certificate, attributed to Samuel Bentz (Pennsylvania, act. 1810-1848),dated 1838, watercolor on paper, sight size 9 3/8 x 7 1/4 in., in a period painted mitered wood frame, (toning, repaired losses).
Provenance: Retains a paper label from the American Folk Art Gallery, New York from 1942 and 1980. Exhibitions: Buffalo, New York, The Albright Gallery, July 1932; Detroit, Michigan, The Hudson Gallery, March 1936; Philadelphia, Gimbles, August 1936; Denver, The Dever Art Museum, May, 1937; Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh University, October, 1939; Chicago, Marshall Field, January, 1943.
Estimate $800-1,200
Not laid down.
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