Jesus appears in the engraving in a red robe with a wreath of thorns on his head. He is seated before a panel of judges, with his hands bound in a rope held by a Roman soldier, and Joseph of Arimathea behind him. The high priest is seen standing in the background, and hangmen with crosses waiting for Jesus’s arrival at the upper left. The engraving is very detailed, with a Latin description of each figure.
Very fine condition.
Impressive color woodcut depicting the intended bride entering the room with her mother behind her. The bridegroom is waiting inside, holding flowers in his hand. The woodcut was prepared by Hermann Junker, signed: Hermann Junker Pinx.
Ein Bild aus dem jüdischen Leben: Die Brautschau. Originalzeichnung by Professor Hermann Junker. S.27
34×24 cm, placed in passe-partout.
Very fine condition.
* Engraving: Ceremonies used at the Circumcision of the Jews , with detail at the bottom, from Dictionary of the Holy Bible , London, 1732, by Calmet. Size: 20×33 cm.
* Engraving: The Jewish Manner of Holding up the Law in the Sight of the People before it is Read to them by William Hurd, London, 1788 after Picart . 28×19 cm.
* Engraving: Celebration of the Day of Forgiveness by the Jews in Germany (the intention here being Amsterdam) by William Hurd, London, 1788 after Picart . 28×19 cm.
* Engraving: The Search for the Leavened Bread & c. a. Domestic Ceremony in the Jewish Religion by William Hurd, London, 1788 after Picart . 28×19 cm.
* Woodcut: Sounding the Horn on New Year’s Day , 1770, 11×17 cm.
* Engraving: Templum Judaeorum, Joodenkerk by Pieter Schenk, view of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. 16×20 cm.
* Engraving: The Chipur or Day of Expiation , by T. Bowles after Picart . England, c. 1715, 18×20 cm.
* Jewish Hospital in London, 1819? 19×11 cm.
* Entrance to the Synagogue in London, 1811, 16×23 cm.
* Synagogue in Zolkiew? Color, 1826, 20×25 cm.
* Une Ceremonie du Culte Juif , the cantor is holding the Torah scroll and turning to the congregants with the holy ark open behind him. Captioned underneath: “Salon de peinture 1869 une ceremonie juive par brandon – dessin de bocourt.” Size:16.5×24 cm.
* De oudste st. anthonis poortnu de waag op de nieuwmarkt etching of the de waag building in Amsterdam, c. 1750. 15×11 cm.
Overall fine-very fine condition, some are placed in passe-partout.
* Juive d’Alger , color etching, taken from the book Géographie générale physique, politique et économique , printed in 1876. 16.5X26.5 cm.
* Marchand Juif , Jewish merchant from Algeria wearing a turban and holding a long pipe, from the book Costumes Moderne. [Musee de Costumes] , printed in 1850. 19X30 cm.
* Juive Mariée , Jewish bride, Th. Frere. 28X29 cm.
Selection of etchings on Jewish topics from Bernard Picart’s monumental book series, Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the World .
* Two etchings on one page: Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam: The top etching depicts the priestly blessing, the bottom one, raising the Torah scroll.
* Erev Yom Kippur: The custom of receiving lashes in the synagogue(!)
* Two etchings on one page: The top one depicts hakafot in the synagogue on Simchat Torah; the bottom one depicts Jews covering a fresh grave with dirt (apparently in the famous Spanish Portuguese cemetery outside Amsterdam).
* Two etchings on one page: The top one depicts the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam on Simchat Torah, with the doors of the holy ark open showing the many Torah scrolls; and the bottom one, “manière de conduire les epoux de la loy, chez eux,” apparently the crowd is accompanying a young couple to their home at the end of their wedding.
* Ritual items: “All the items necessary for ritual service,” the top depicts the accessories necessary for ritual circumcision, underneath is an open Torah scroll, a closed book, a magnificent coat and a pomegranate.
* Etching with ritual items: Shabbat lamp, tzitzit, the four species, a shofar, and more.
* Tallit and tefillin, presented from various angles. (An interesting detail about this etching is that it depicts round tefillin shel yad, which is something deliberated by the adjudicators. There are those who saw this as proof that in Amsterdam, it was customary to use round tefillin – the latest reference to this custom).
* Rare etching by Picart, apparently not one from the known series: Shofar blowing in the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam.
* Etching of the Portuguese synagogue in The Hague; the etching which was underneath has been cropped.
[9] leaves, 24×40 cm.
Overall fine-very condition, minimal blemishes in the margins, without damage to the etching nor the text.
Impressive color lithograph of a Jewish woman sitting with a baby in her lap. The woman is looking down at the baby. Another woman can be discerned at right.
David Wilkie (1785-1841) was a British painter and artist.
41×29 cm, signature on the bottom: David Wilkie ft. 1840, and the name of the lithograph on the bottom: Hebrew Woman and Child .
Very fine condition, place in passe-partout.
Jewish Merchant from Turkey sitting on a couch and relaxing smoking a narghile, his servants are shown in the backdrop and the sea is on the horizon.
Henry J. Van Lennep (1815-1889) was a renowned missionary and artist who produced many etchings and drawings.
38×27 cm.
Fine-very fine condition, minimal blemishes in the margins; there is no damage to the lithograph itself.
Large impressive etching, expertly painted by an artist. Two women sitting by a weaving loom and speaking; the two women are dressed luxuriously , the room, too, is magnificent.
Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1737-1791) lived and painted in Paris.
34×45 cm.
Fine-very fine condition, minimal tears in the margins, no damage to the etching itself.
* Quartier des Juifs à Jérusalem , [ Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem ], by Louis de Forbin. The etching is from the journal L’Artiste , Paris, 1845. 27×20 cm.
* Etching of the gates of Jerusalem. 25×34 cm.
Overall very fine condition. Both are placed in Passe-partout.
Engraving of Moses Mendelssohn, one of the leaders of the Jewish enlightenment movement. Drawing by Johann Christoph Frisch, engraving by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger, from B ildnisse der berühmtesten Menschen aller Völker und Zeiten [ Portraits of the Most Famous People of all Peoples and Times ]. [Zwickau, Germany, 1832].
Specifications: [1] leaf paper. 17×13.5 cm.
Condition: Fine-very fine. Aging stains.
Thirteen leaves, including a map of Basel 1549, Cairo, Alexandria, Rama, Christian buildings and more.
Various conditions, overall fine condition.
Collection of approximately [30] engravings of sites in the Land of Israel and the surrounding area; most are engravings of Jerusalem. Including Christian sites.
Latin, French and German.
Various sizes and conditions, overall fine condition.
17 leaves with copperplate engravings from the 16th-18th centuries. Some of the leaves have engravings on both sides of the leaf.
Fine-very fine condition.
Early picture in lithograph print [Monzon?] of the gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin [1817-1897].
Size: 19×22 cm. Placed in a wood and glass frame: 28×31 cm.
Stains and creases. Not examined outside the frame.
Collection of eight leaves, ancient portrait engravings of European personalities. 19th century.
Overall fine condition.
‘Picture of the holy rabbi, elder of Israel, the great gaon Maran Shmuel Salant shlit”a, head of the Ashkenazic rabbis in Jerusalem – lithographic print by Moznon c. 1903, published in his lifetime, about six years before his passing. One of the early works by the Moznon press in Jerusalem.
Long inscription in the margins of the picture including a biography in present tense [‘and from then until now he serves in this position’], including his precise date of birth, 2 Shevat 1816. At the end, there is mention of his acquiescence to the Adere”t, shlit”a ‘s request in 1901 that he immigrate to Jerusalem to assist Rabbi Shmuel Salant in his role. As is well-know, the Adere”t passed away in 1905 during Rabbi Shmuel Salant’s lifetime.
Rabbi Shmuel Salant avoided being photographed, and it is more than likely that Leib Moznon did not have a photograph from which he prepared the lithograph. A similar picture appears in the Chatzer HaYishuv HaYashan catalog A. L. Moznon Press 1892-1992 Jerusalem 2009. The picture is dated 1903 there, and it is written there that the rabbi appears in the photographs with closed eyes, and that Moznon drew the eyes from memory.
Among the early works of the Moznon press, does not appear in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Size: 27×38 cm. Fold marks, residue of scotch tape. Moderate-fine condition.
Portrait painting of the gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher by Hermann Struck, printed leaf published by Judisiche Presse Berlin, early 20th century.
Artist’s name on the lower left.
The gaon Rabbi Eliyahu Guttmacher: [1876-1944, among the heralders of Zionism, and among the first to call for agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel]
Size: 21×14 cm. Fine condition.
Great Synagogue of Kingsburg, Germany. Engraving signed A. Binuson.
Magnificent synagogue built in 1890 by architects Kremer and Levenstein, burned down by the Nazis together with another four synagogues in the city during Kristallnacht 1938.
Engraving: 24×17 cm. Leaf: 28×35 cm.
Fine condition.
Color print of Binyamin Zeev Herzl [according to a drawing]. Signed in print on the lower right corner: Koppy 1899.
Size: 30×40 cm. Placed in a wood and glass frame.
Not checked outside the frame.
Very fine condition.
Ze’ev Jabotinsky in Jewish Battalion uniform – high-quality lithographic print, signed R. De Lejare 1943.
Size: 33×42 cm.
Stains, fine condition.
Scene from the Life of Spanish Immigrants in Salonika in the Late 18th Century Rephael Avraham Shalem – lithographic print in gold ink, Moznon press, Bezalel Jerusalem 1937.
Kindling the eternal flame just before Shabbat – magnificent work at Moznon press.
Artist Rephael Avraham Shalem [RO”Sh] was born in Salonika in 1888, among the first graduating class of Bezalel; he went on to teach there. He prepared his picture for print already in 1916 as appears in the picture, but the printing was too expensive for him so it was actually printed in 1937.
Size: 42×63 cm.
Very fine condition.
