"Celebrating New Life" early illuminated manuscript

Paper paintings commemorative of special occasions, drawn and decorated by hand or printed and later decorated by hand are an interesting form of American folk art and are found throughout the eastern seaboard states. The source of these forms of early American folk art can be traced directly to the medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Some pen-paintings were used as the birth, baptismal, confirmation and wedding certificates. The rarest of them, are those that are entirely hand-painted; second, are those partly printed and partly hand-decorated, and finally, there are those that are entirely printed but hand-colored. 
 
Download only. Recommended print on cardstock.