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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 16, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | Americana | 257 | $****** - ****** | A Fraktur Birth Record of Eliza Dunn, attributed to E. Firth, Salem County, New Jersey |
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22.5 x 25.1 cm (8.88 x 9.88 in)
watercolor and ink on paper
dated December 30, 1810
Joe Kindig Sr., York, Pennsylvania;
Ralph Esmerian, New York;
David Wheatcroft, Massachusetts;
Antique Associates at West Townsend, Massachusetts, 2004.
Schaffner and Klein, The Magazine ANTIQUES, "Living with Antiques" 1982, p. 515, Fig. 8 (pictured in Ralph Esmerian"s apartment);
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families , (New Jersey: 2022), p. 208, fig. 368.
watercolor and ink on paper
dated December 30, 1810
height 8 ⅞ in. by width 9 ⅞ in.
within a circular sun the inscription Eliza Dunn Daughter of/ Samuel Dunn and Wife was Born December 30th/ Anno Domini 1810 Eighteen Hundred and Ten is between two pictorial scenes: a square-rigged ship and sloop sailing beneath moon, sun, and stars above and a home with cedar trees and grazing geese below; the corners with four roundels, the top two encompassing red hearts and the bottom two with biblical verses: the first You must be Born again,/ Says Christ to one of old; Then do from sin refrain, And be a Christian bold, the second For every child of Man/ The scripture doth relate/ Is saved by this Plan/ Or wretched is their state .
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