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Rare religious text with birds and flowers by 
																	 Pennsylvania School

Pennsylvania School

( American, 18th/19th C)

Rare religious text with birds and flowers

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Materials:

Watercolor and ink on paper

Measurements:

8.00 in. (20.32 cm.) (height) by 13.44 in. (34.13 cm.) (width)

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Inscribed (translated from German) in ink: Oh my heart would be full of joy / and would be so refreshed/would gladly endure all suffering/ If my Jesus were only with me / If I should only have him / I should have just what I wished / I would not have to see him soon/ must entirely go away for suffering./Written 3 December 1802. J.F

Provenance:

Ada Musselman, Ephrata, Pennsylvania; Fred Wichmann, New York; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, "The Fred Wichmann Collection of Pennsylvania-German Fraktur and Related Decorative Arts," June 9, 1983, lot 145

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