Numerous Biblical iconographic images framed by micrographic script in Dutch. With Masonic images.

(MIZRACH)

Netherlands, 1843.

Multicolored. In Hebrew and Dutch. Signed at bottom left corner L.D.V.G. (Levi David van Gelder), Amsterdam

Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme, Paris, n.d., pp. 62-62. Similar works are found in the collection of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, Los Angeles; and Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam

A rare Mizrach designed by this Dutch Jewish artist. For a further study on the juxtoposition of Masonic and Jewish images See The Masonic Mizrach and Lamp: Jewish ritual art as a reflection of cultural assimilation; Alice M. Greenwald, Journal of Jewish Art, Vol. 10, pp. 91-101.