Spring Blessing

Originally created abt 1785 by an unknown artist in Pennsylvania.

The return of spring is celebrated in this decorative example of fraktur, the term used to designate records of the Pennsylvania Germans. In their watercolor birth and baptismal certificates, house blessings, song books, and writing models, the remembrance of the Palatinate homeland is presented again and again as an expression of a non-individual group culture. Flower, bird, plant and figure symbols abound in these creations in which design is emphasized over personality. The flowering vine dominates this composition and is neatly balanced at either side by the colorful 18th-century figures.

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