Online Auction 012 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Jews at Prayer - Seven Prints - Europe, 18th and 19th Centuries

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Seven prints portraying Jews in a synagogue:
1. Synagoog der Jooden [Jewish synagogue], engraving by Mattys Pool. [Holland?, ca. 1700].
44.5X31.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Wear, stains and many tears at margins of leaf, not affecting engraving.
2. Le son du cor au premier jour de l'an [blowing the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah], engraving by Bernard Picart. [1726].
22X16.5 cm. Good condition. Small tear at bottom of leaf.
3. 15è Vue d'optique nouvelle, représentant les Juifs dans leur Sinagogue, Célébrants une de leurs Solemnités appelée le Purim, hand-colored engraving by Jacques-Gabriel Huquier and Henry Émile Vivarez after Bernard Picart. Paris, [ca. 1750].
41X30 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, some tears not affecting text.
4. The Jewish Manner of Holding the Law in the Sight of the People, at Duke's Place, London. Alex. Hogg press, London, [ca. 1784].
28.5X19 cm. Good condition. Some stains.
5. Synagogue, Dukes Place, Houndsditch, hand-colored aquatint by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Charles Pugin. Printed in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, London, 1809.
28X24 cm. good condition. Small tear with minimal damage to text.
6. La sortie de la loi de jour du sabbat [reading the Torah on Shabbath], engraving by Charles Courtry after a painting by Edouard Brandon. A. Salmon press, Paris, [pre 1869].
13.5X24 cm. Good condition.
7. A Jewish Synagogue, engraving by Ebenezer Challis after a painting by Solomon Hart. Gad & Keningdale press, London, [1870].
23X31.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Some stains. Remnants of adhesive tape. Medium tear not affecting text.
Bibliophilia, Prints and Art
Bibliophilia, Prints and Art