Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Destruction of Jerusalem – Hand-Colored Woodcut – Double Incunabula Leaf from "Nuremberg Chronicle" by Hartmann Schedel, 1493
Opening: $600
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
Destruccio Iherosolime [Destruction of Jerusalem], double incunabula leaf (no. LXIIII) from Hartmann Schedel's book "Nuremberg Chronicle". [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493].
Hand-colored woodcut depicting the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple by Nebuzaradan, commander of the guard of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, in the year 586 BCE.
According to Laor, this is the second view of Jerusalem ever printed (Laor 1125).
Leaf: approx. 41.5X57.5 cm, in a 60X43.5 cm frame. Good-fair condition. Stains. Slighty darkened paper. Small tears (some of them open) to vertical folding mark and margins (slightly affecting the woodcut). Strips of pape pasted along vertical folding mark (on back of the woodcut depicting Jerusalem).
Provenance: Collection of the Jerusalem Foundation founded by Teddy Kollek.
The proceeds from the sale of this item will go to the Jerusalem Foundation and will be allocated for supporting projects in Jerusalem.
Hand-colored woodcut depicting the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple by Nebuzaradan, commander of the guard of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, in the year 586 BCE.
According to Laor, this is the second view of Jerusalem ever printed (Laor 1125).
Leaf: approx. 41.5X57.5 cm, in a 60X43.5 cm frame. Good-fair condition. Stains. Slighty darkened paper. Small tears (some of them open) to vertical folding mark and margins (slightly affecting the woodcut). Strips of pape pasted along vertical folding mark (on back of the woodcut depicting Jerusalem).
Provenance: Collection of the Jerusalem Foundation founded by Teddy Kollek.
The proceeds from the sale of this item will go to the Jerusalem Foundation and will be allocated for supporting projects in Jerusalem.
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