Lot 161
Mezzotint – Portrait of Rabbi Moshe Gomes de Mesquita – Rabbi of the Sephardi Community Sha'ar HaShamayim in London – London, 1752
Portrait of R. Moshe Gomes de Mesquita – Rabbi of the Sephardi Sha'ar HaShamayim community in London. Mezzotint. Printed by John Faber the Younger, [London], 1752.
R. Moshe (Moses) Gomes de Mesquita (died in 1751) was Rabbi of the Sephardi Sha'ar HaShamayim community in London for seven years. Previously, he was a scholar at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Amsterdam. His halachic responsa were included in the Pri Etz Chaim responsa published by the members of the "Etz Chaim – Amsterdam" Beit Midrash (volumes 1, 2, 3, 6-7) and his responsa from the years 1734, 1737, 1740, 1742 and 1743 can be found in these volumes. In Vol. 3, at the beginning of Question 5, addressed to R. Moshe, he is titled "First and foremost to anything holy, right pillar of the great and famous Etz Chaim Beit Midrash, R. Moshe Gomes de Mesquita…".
22.5 X 32 cm. Overall good condition. Stains. Minor defects, primarily to margins.
