Auction 026
Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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Dec 22, 2020
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LOT 66:
Consumption of the Passover Offering on the Night of the Exodus from Egypt – Hand-colored Woodcut – Wittenberg, 1572
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Consumption of the Passover Offering on the Night of the Exodus from Egypt – Hand-colored Woodcut – Wittenberg, 1572
Passover in Egypt, a hand-colored woodcut by Johann Teufel, from the edition of the Bible translated by Martin Luther. [Wittenberg, Germany, 1572].
A woodcut, inserted into the Book of Exodus, Chapter 12 (wherein the Children of Israel are commanded to deliver the Passover Sacrifice [or Offering]). It depicts a group of men with belts around their waists and with their staffs in hand (as prescribed in the Biblical passage), feasting on the Passover Offering. Hand-colored and gilt.
Portrayals by Christian artists of the First Seder Night and the biblical events leading up to the Exodus from Egypt – as they appeared in illustrated printed bibles – profoundly influenced the illustrations that accompanied the Passover Haggadah in the first centuries following the advent of the printing press. Such an influence is dramatically evident in the Amsterdam Haggadah (1695), whose engravings, by the artist Avraham ben Jacob the proselyte, are mostly borrowed from engravings of biblical scenes by the Swiss artist Matthaeus Merian.
Print: 15X11.5 cm, on sheet 35X22.5 cm. Good condition. Stains to paper. Minor tears to edges. Fold lines.
