Colorful Primitive
House Portrait
or Birth Record  

American, Pennsylvania, dated 1850.

Fraktur watercolor and ink on paper. Above the date and flanking it on the left and right written in ink in German. I suspect the translation would tell us who was born on this property in 1850 (would welcome translation). Even toning to the paper.

Painted frame appears original with nicely bubbled glass, frame size about 15 inches x 12 ¾.