The practical book of early American arts and crafts . ing forward, based upon the portions of a plantwhich each holds in her hands. The lower portion ofthe picture has nothing to do with the upper. Feactue WoEK BY Engush Colonists. The birthcertificates of the three Shinn children and of CalebLippincott are particularly interesting as showing thedevelopment of fractur painting when it got into thehands of English colonists. The Lippincott painting isstill further interesting because it depicts one of thelocal sports, and the fox-hunters apparently wear thecoats and caps of the old Gloucester
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . ing forward, based upon the portions of a plantwhich each holds in her hands. The lower portion ofthe picture has nothing to do with the upper. Feactue WoEK BY Engush Colonists. The birthcertificates of the three Shinn children and of CalebLippincott are particularly interesting as showing thedevelopment of fractur painting when it got into thehands of English colonists. The Lippincott painting isstill further interesting because it depicts one of thelocal sports, and the fox-hunters apparently wear thecoats and caps of the old Gloucester Fox Hunting Club,which started a few years before the date of the cer-tificate and afterward became the nucleus of Phila-delphias First City Troop. Foe the Collector. Now and again these paintingsmay be picked up in the most unexpected places, andare always worth examining as specimens of an amus-ing and instructive art episode and for the light theyoccasionally throw upon Colonial history or the man-ners of the colonists. In his monograph Mr. Mercer. BIRTH RECORD, FRACTUR PAINTING,EXECUTED BY ENGLISH COLONISTSFrishmuth Collection, Pennsylvania Museum and Schoolof Industrial Art THE ART OF FRACTUR 297 observes that previously the existence of these illumina-tions had been little more than casually alluded to byany writer. With the exception of Mr. Mercers ac-count, the same is still true, and comparatively fewpeople have seen or know anything about them,although, in the counties where they were once made,it is by no means unusual to happen upon them insecond-hand shops and at the country sales of householdeffects. Sometimes these specimens are of the sort oncetraced at Ephrata, but more often they are either semi-secular (birth and marriage certificates and the like) orelse the secular wall embellishments. They are espe-cially numerous in the Mennonite and Dunkard com-munities along the Perkiomen and the Skippack Creeksand in Berks and Bucks. Besides the fractur paintingsin the
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