Amish Artist Barbara Ebersole (1846-1922) Lancaster, PA 1878 Ink and Watercolor Fraktur Bookplate steam radiator with a great folkiness that

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

a really wonderful portrait

as documented--noticeable

mid-later 20th century I believe

…most of the paint on the head is gone

Amish Artist Barbara Ebersole (1846-1922) Lancaster, PA 1878 Ink and Watercolor Fraktur Bookplate steam radiator with a great folkiness thatSometimes 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