Title
Kurzgefaßte Historische Nachricht von der Gegenwärtigen Verfassung der Evangelischen Brüderunität Augspurgischer Confession [two copies].
Coverage
August Gottlieb Spangenberg.
Barby, Germany:
Publisher
Christian Friedrich Laux,
Date
1781
Description
American decorated papers were rare in the 18th century; however, the paste papers created by the Moravian community founded in Pennsylvania around 1740 are an exception. Settlers brought the craft with them from Hernnhut in Saxony, Germany, the center of the Moravian Church, where paste papers were traditionally used to bind religious tracts. These examples could have been produced in Germany or Pennsylvania. Both papers are decorated with brushwork and stamping.
Source
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania