Synagogue Peep-Show.

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art

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Lot 136

ENGELBRECHT, MARTIN.

Synagogue Peep-Show.

Six engraved, hand-colored cards, intricately cut out, of the Spanish and Portugueses Synagogue, Amsterdam, showing the vaulted interior flanked by Ionic columns. Some wear with minimal loss 50x95mm.

Augsburg, ca. 1750.:

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

A rare Jewish “peep-show” depicting Amsterdam’s resplendent Sephardic Synagogue with the Congregation at prayer. An early diorama, produced right at the genesis of such a genre and probably created as a children’s play-thing. (See Lot 88). In this smaller version of the engravings, the scene depicted is the raising of the Torah Scroll (Hagbahah) during the Sabbath morning service