Sheet for preparing a lotto board which features the plants of Eretz Israel, illustrated by Nehemia Bedrechi. Jerusalem: "Bezalel Lithography" press. Ca.1915. Stone engraving.
Eretz-Israeli plants, flowers and fruit are illustrated on the boards. It is possible that the designer, Nehemia Bedrechi, was inspired by the Eretz Israel flowers lotto produced by Shmuel Charuvi, the "flowers artist" and a "Bezalel" teacher, and by the general attitude in "Bezalel" and of early Zionism which focused on establishing a direct connection to the land. Signed on the plate: "N. Bedrechi", produced by "Lithography Bezalel Yerushalem", printed stamps on the margins by Z. Raban, Z. Ravitsky, Miriam Ravitzky and M. Aloni "Kunstschule 'Bezalel' Jerusalem" and Shmuel Ben-David.
33.7X49 cm, framed 38.9X54.5 cm. Not examined out of frame. Good condition, small tear in upper left corner.
See: Bezalel by Schatz, 1906-1929, exhibition catalogue (Jerusalem, 1982), p.209.