Das Innere einer Sinagoge in Rome.

HESS, HIERONYMUS.

(Carlsruhe, 1823)

Lithograph. Executed by von Guise.

Rubens, 1693.

Hieronymis Hess (1799-1850) was a Swiss draftsman and painter, well known as a social commentator due to his political cartoons. He lived in Italy between 1819 and 1823, where he would have become aware of the conditions of Italian Jewry at the time. For another example of this lithograph, see Sotheby’s, The Michael & Judy Steinhardt Judaica Collection, April 29th, 2013, Lot 201.