“Photographs After Ten Drawings of Jewish Ceremonials”

Estimate: $2,000–$3,000
Hammer price: $1,500

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

SOLOMON, SIMEON

Place

London

Publication

c. 1862

Description

Ten photographic illustrations, laid onto board

references

cf. Rubens no.637-46

summary

A MOST SCARCE PORTFILIO, ILLUSTRATING JEWISH LIFE, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THIS FINE ANGLO-JEWISH ARTIST. Rubens records only a later series of ten wood engravings from the original drawings published in Once a Week, 9th August 1862 and The Leisure Hour, 1866

Sheets trace foxed (not affecting images), each sheet titled in pencil. Housed in original portfolio, gently rubbed at edges, re-backed. Folio

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