Amish Artist Barbara Ebersole (1846-1922) Lancaster, PA 1878 Ink and Watercolor Fraktur Bookplate steam radiator surely based on real people

surely based on real people

with a great folkiness that animates and humanizes her in a wonderful way

4" tall x 4" wide x 2 7/8" deep

…most of the paint on the head is gone

a really wonderful portrait

Amish Artist Barbara Ebersole (1846-1922) Lancaster, PA 1878 Ink and Watercolor Fraktur Bookplate steam radiator surely based on real peopleSometimes it feels like everything that is a known quantity has been found already, run through a google search, and priced according to the highest auction record. But then I have a week where I turn up a few unexpected things. Like this 1879 bookplate by Amish artist Barbara Ebersole (Lancaster County, PA, 1846 1922). Ebersole produced watercolor paintings, needleworks, and birth, marriage and death certificates (significant now also in tracing the