Drawing for Catharine McKnight
Fraktur
Item Info
Language: English
Weiser Number: 48
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Wove paper; watercolor; ink
Watermark: C&S
Transcription:
Miss Catharina McKnight \ A.D. 1825.
Category: Drawing
Media Type: Drawings
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:
Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The text in Roman script is in the upper center. In the center of the document is a woman in a long dress. She is holding a purse in one hand and a bouquet of flowers in the other. An ornamental comb holds up her hair. She is flanked on each side by a rose and a bird perched on a tulip. In the corners are stars. See FLP 1066 for Catharine McKnight's Taufschein and FLP 1068 for a drawing inscribed for her.
Associated Names: Young, Henry
Bibliography:
"Henry Christian Andrew Harmon Young" in Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), 2nd ed., vol. 2, pp. 826-832.
Early American Life (August 1984): published on p. 55.
E. Bryding Adams, “The Fraktur Artist Henry Young,” in Der Reggeboge 2, nos. 3-4 (Fall 1977): 1-25.
Creation Place County: Creation Place Note:Based on family history
Region/County:[Northumberland]
State/Province:[Pennsylvania]
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1825
Image Dimensions Width: 25.8 cm
ShelfMark: FLP 1067
Creator Name: [Henry Young (1792-1861)] - Decorator
[Henry Young (1792-1861)] - Scrivener
Drawing for Catharine McKnight