March Americana Auction

Calligraphic Saddle Horse Illustration.

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Start price: $1,000

Estimated price: $2,000 - $3,000

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Pennsylvania, circa 1850. Artist unknown, possibly the work of C. Scherich. Pen, ink, and watercolor on paper; 19 x 20.875 inches. For similar examples, see M. Karolik, Collection of American Water Colors and Drawings, Vol II, item 1401; and Shelley, The Fraktur Writings … of the Pennsylvania Germans, Vol. 23, plate 78. A similar example is also found in the Catalogue of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Boston, 1957, plate 130.