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Prints by Folk Artist Lewis Miller - 2 [146426]

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Prints by Folk Artist Lewis Miller - 2  [146426]
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Two framed, hand-colored, very early prints of drawings by Lewis Miller (1796-1882), a Pennsylvania Dutch folk artist who worked as a carpenter. Miller kept journals in which he sketched scenes from his daily life and surroundings. Many of his drawings are housed in Colonial Williamsburg and a museum in his birthplace of York, Pennsylvania. One of these prints is titled by Miller as "The Court House in Christiansburg in the year - 1831, and old Jail," and the other is titled "Residence of Mr. Croctett in Wytheville, July 1 the, 1856." and it has a lower caption that reads " A Large Elm Tree Struck by Lightning in the Evening, Eighty feet from the house at Stewart Croctett." (I know, you'd think it was Crockett, but he did not write it that way.) This one shows a lightning bolt striking a tree in the upper left. The Court House print was carefully removed from the frame for close examination. It is definitely not an original drawing but a very early type of print that was hand tinted with watercolor. The prints are 6-5/8 x 8-1/4 inches in simple wooden frames that are approx. 8 x 9-1/2 inches. When examined, the backing paper was discovered to be a recycled color print, probably from a tabloid.

Date: 1850s
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