Joha[nnes] Kelpius [art original] Dr. Christopher Witt

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Witt, Christopher, Dr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kelpius, John, 1667?-1708.

Kelpius, John.

Witt, Christopher, Dr., painter.

Witt, Christopher.

Pietists--Pennsylvania--Germantown.

Pietists.

Pietists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

1 painting : col. port.

paper 23 x 17 cm. watercolor paints canvas

Place of Publication:

[Germantown, Pa. : Christopher Witt, 1705]

Summary:

"Keplius is shown at full-length, seated halfway to left, in a high-backed wooden arm chair, his left hand raised to his face. He wears a robe which reaches to his ankles, a turbanlike headdress, and high-heeled shoes. Behind him is a slant-top reading desk with an open book, and in the upper right corner of the picture a wall clock." (Paintings and Miniatures at the HSP, p. 142)

Notes:

"Inscribed at upper left: Joha[nnes] Kelpius. Though done by an amateur, and in damaged condition, this small painting in brown and black is of interest as one of the earliest, if not the earliest portrait extant which originated in Pennsylvania." (Paintings and Miniatures at the HSP, p. 142) "Johannes Kelpius led a group of about 40 German pietists who settled in Germantown in 1694. This drawing, by an English doctor, clock-maker, and member of a pietist sect, may be the first portrait done in Pennsylvania." (Finding Philadelphia's Past, p. 14)

OCLC:

431534749

Access Restriction:

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