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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Denig, Ludwig |
| Title, Monographic | The Picture-Bible of Ludwig Denig: A Pennsylvania German Emblem Book |
| Author/Subsidiary, or Performer | Yoder, Don |
| Author Role 2 or Performer/Director | trans. and ed. |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Hudson Hills Press in association with the Museum of American Folk Art and the Pennsylvania German Society |
| Date of Publication | 1990 |
| Extent of Work | 2 vols. (viii, 180; [278]) |
| Abstract | Ludwig Denig, a shoemaker born in Lancaster in 1755, produced an album of 60 full-page ink-and-watercolor-plates dated 1784; his work "portrays biblical scenes and religious emblems and is accompanied by explanatory notes written in the everyday German of colonial Pennsylvania." The discovery of his album in 1975 added significant new dimensions to the field of folk art in America. This 2-volume work provides an examination of the artist and of colonial Lancaster, the book and its sources, and a reproduction of Denig's picture-Bible in color plates. |
| Notes | Donated by Robert Meier, 2008. Includes text translated from the German. Includes index. Bibliography: v. 1, pp. 101-109 |
| Call Number | MKI GR110 P4 A372 |
| MKI Terms | Fraktur art -- Pennsylvania -- Pennsylvania Dutch Country/ German Americans -- Pennsylvania/ Bible/ Denig, Ludwig, 1755-1830/ 18th century |