Anna Kampffer Vorschrift: "Ihr Kinder Wollt..." (painting).

Anna Kampffer Vorschrift: "Ihr Kinder Wollt..." (painting).

Kolb, Andreas, 1749-1811, painter. (possibly by)

Anna Kampffer Vorschrift: "Ihr Kinder Wollt..." (painting).

This two page vorschrift fraktur has a first page that reads: "Ihr Kinder wollt ihr Lieben, So Liebt Was Liebens Werth." This page also includes several other verses of this hymn. "Written the 15th November, 1793." Designs include a vine with tulips, checkboard diamonds, an elaborately embellished first letter I, and half circles in both bottom corners. The colors are peach-pink, blue, yellow, and black. The second page has three alphabets --one capital German script, one lower case German script, and one capital English script. At the bottom is: "Diese Vorschrift Gehoret der Anna Kampffer, Geschrieben im Jahr 1793." (This vorschrift belongs to Anna Kampffer, written in the year 1793.) Also: "Deborah K. Cassel, 1854."

Primitive -- Fractur

Homage -- Kampffer, Anna

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, Mennonite Heritage Center, 565 Yoder Road, P.O. Box 82, Harleysville, Pennsylvania 19438 Accession Number: 88-19-1A and 88-19-1B

Acquired from Cassel, Deborah K. Markley,

The vorschrift was possibly created by Skippack township schoolmaster Andreas Kolb in Nov. 1793 for Anna Kampffer, daughter of Abraham and Mary Johnson Kampffer of Skippack, when she was in school. Anna Kampffer married Philip Markley and inherited the old Kemper homestead. Anna Kampffer Markley's daughter, Deborah K. Markley married Jesse Cassel, and later owned this vorschrift fractur.

Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania, 1988.

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