Manuscript Micrographic half-length portrait of “The Great Sage and Chief Rabbi of the Province of Posen” full-bearded and wearing skull-cap. Executed by Joseph Katz of Freistadt.

AUCTION 6 | Tuesday, November 17th, 1998 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 253
(EGER, AKIVA).

Manuscript Micrographic half-length portrait of “The Great Sage and Chief Rabbi of the Province of Posen” full-bearded and wearing skull-cap. Executed by Joseph Katz of Freistadt.

Composed of selected Hebrew verses from the Book of Psalms. Brown ink on paper, with pencil drawing of R. Akiva Eger’s burial-place Laid down. 340x450mm

1838-9

Est: $5,000 - $7,000
Powerfully influential Rabbi and scholar (1761-1837). Portrait executed just a year following his death