PAIR OF PENNSYLVANIA FOLK ART FRAKTUR BLESSINGS, watercolor and ink on paper, both featuring a portrait of a woman in dress with striped bodice holding a flower within a circular surround above a stylized heart, inscribed for brothers, Michael Sill 1786" and "Johanes Sill 1786", additional garland-like devices. Each housed in a modern paint-decorated frame. Attributed to the Provinz Marialand Artist. Circa 1786. 6 3/4" x 4 3/8" sight, 8 7/8" x 6 1/4" OA.
Each in very good overall visual condition, with minor each tears, toning, and areas of discoloration. Each with approximately one-inch tear upper left.
Literature: See Earnest and Earnest - Flying Leaves and One-Sheets: Pennsylvania Broadsides, Fraktur, and Their Printers, fig. 110, pp. 268-269 for a woodblock impression of highly similar design attributed to the artist.
Provenance: Property deaccessioned by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), to benefit the collections and acquisitions funds._x000D_
Gift of Pastor Frederick S. Weiser.
Catalogue Note: Once thought to have been made in Maryland, it is now believed that the Sill brothers were living in Pennsylvania at the time of composition.

Each in very good overall visual condition, with minor each tears, toning, and areas of discoloration. Each with approximately one-inch tear upper left.