Fraktur, ca. 1770–1800, Made in Pennsylvania, United States, American, Watercolor, pen and iron gall ink, and graphite on off-white laid paper, 13 3/16 x 16 9/16 in. (33.5 x 42.1 cm), Drawings, Johann Heinrich Otto (ca. 1733–ca. 1800), By 1770, Otto, a German émigré, had begun to make various forms of fraktur, a style of decorative calligraphy named after a sixteenth-century German typeface. Otto’s skill is evident in the pleasing checks and balances of color and form he achieved in the composition of repetitive motifs
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Fraktur, ca, 1770–1800, Pennsylvania, United States, American, Watercolor, pen, iron gall ink, graphite, off-white laid paper, 13 3/16 x 16 9/16, 33.5 42.1 cm, Drawings, Johann Heinrich Otto, ca., 1733–ca., 1800, 1770, Otto, German émigré, begun, various forms, fraktur, style, decorative calligraphy, sixteenth-century German, typeface, skill, evident, pleasing checks, balances, color, form, achieved, composition, repetitive motifs
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