Auction 82 - Part I - Judaica – Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Portrait of the Gaon of Vilna - Large Color Lithograph

Opening: $400
Unsold
Portrait of the Gaon of Vilna - large color lithograph. Breslau (Germany): Salo Schottländer, [early 20th century].
The Gaon of Vilna is seen seated at his desk, wrapped in a tallit, holding a book in one hand and writing with a feather on a paper laid out before him.
The inscription reads: "The Gaon R. Eliyahu of Vilna… author of Shenot Eliyahu, born 1st day of Pesach 1725, d. 19th Tishrei 1794".
50X37 cm. Good-fair condition. Marginal tears. Open tears to lower margin, slightly affecting text.
Photographs, Prints and Drawings
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