Item Info

Scripts/Text: Roman script
Language: English
Weiser Number: 49
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Wove paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

Miss Catharine M^cKnight her \ Picter in the year 1829

Translation:

Miss Catharine McKnight her picture in the year 1829.

Category: Drawing
Media Type: Drawings
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. In the center of the document are a woman and a man. A table with a bottle is between them. The woman is dressed in a long dress with flowers. She has an ornamental comb in her hair. The main is dressed in long trouser and a tailcoat. He is holding a glass with liquid in one hand and holding the woman’s hand with his other. In the upper corners are two stars. The caption in Roman script is written along the upper edge.  See FLP 1066 for Catharine McKnight's taufschein and FLP 1067 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), 2^nd ed., vol. 2, pp. 826-832. 

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): 1829
Image Dimensions Width: 34.2 cm
ShelfMark: FLP 1068
Creator Name: [Henry Young (1792-1861)] - Decorator