ID: 700009453 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009453	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Birth and Baptismal Certificate (fraktur (document); Portzline, Francis (German American 1771-1857); 1840/1855; Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Philadelphia count...; 1928-10-90)

Note: Frakturs were created as blessings, rewards of merit, or personal records of confirmation, marriage, or baptism, as in this example. Like many fraktur artists, Francis Portzline taught school and had special skills in lettering and painting. In this work, the surrounding birds, butterflies, and flowers reinforce the celebratory nature of the religious ceremony. Such records were important for membership in the Lutheran or Reformed Churches; their texts also offered spiritual guidance for their owners.

Titles:

Birth and Baptismal Certificate (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

fraktur (document) [300222057] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>)

baptismal certificate [300027970]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, records (documents), <records by provenance>, church records, <church records by form or function>)

birth certificate [300027399]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, records (documents), <records by form or function>, vital statistics records, birth records)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1840/1855

Creator Display:

Portzline, Francis (German American 1771-1857) [preferred]

artist Portzline, Francis (German American artist, schoolmaster, 1771-1857) [500475807]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Snyder [1002900] Pennsylvania (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, United States) [500214534] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1928-10-90

Credit Line: Gift of J. Stogdell Stokes, 1928

Display Materials: watercolor wash, pigments in gum medium, and ink on wove paper

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gum (material) [300012866]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, organic material)

	wove paper [300014187]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, paper (fiber product), <paper by production method>)

Dimensions: Sheet: 12 13/16 x 15 9/16 inches (32.5 x 39.5 cm)

General Subject:

text (preferred)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Birth and Baptismal Certificate	........ [VP]
	........ Philadelphia Museum of Art online (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Philadelphia Museum of Art online (2000-) accessed 17 June 2018