About the artworks

Year: 1946

Edition: The Folk Art Press

Mounted size: 28cm x 33.5cm

Delivery: You can collect framed, mounted prints from the shop or contact Cal to arrange specialist art handlers. Unframed prints can be delivered.

More information

Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860.

Fraktur drawings were executed in ink and/or watercolors and are found in a wide variety of forms: the Vorschriften (writing samples), the Taufscheine (birth and baptismal certificates), marriage and house blessings, book plates, and floral and figurative scenes. The earlier Fraktur were executed entirely by hand, while printed text became increasingly common in later examples. Common artistic motifs in Fraktur include birds (distelfinks), hearts, and tulips, as well as blackletter (Fraktur) and italic calligraphy.

This conservation-mounted collection of screenprints was published as a catalogue of patterns and illustrations from furniture, needlework, pottery and tin ware.