Palestine avec la Sortie des Hebreux de l’Egypte et la Trace de leur Migration dans le Desert d’apres les Meilleures Sources et les Mesures des plus justes - Mapah MeHa’Aretz HaKadoshah.

BRAVERMAN, HILLEL DAVID.

(France, c. 1870)

Lithographed map, with text in Hebrew and French.

Hebrew Biblical map of Eretz Israel including Tribal divisions, routes of the Jews following the Exodus and featuring three vignettes: At top: Depiction of the Vilna Gaon’s plan of the Third Temple prophesied by the Prophet Ezekiel and originally executed by Dov Baer ben Joseph Jospa of Vilna, 1820 (see: Vinograd, Vilna Gaon 24; facsimile of map on p. 291). At center: A pictorial representation of the Tribes encampment around the Tabernacle. Lower right: Land of Israel interior borders prior to the destruction of the Second Temple. Biblical verses relating to the Exodus from Egypt between images of eagles appears lower left. The French artist Hillel David Braverman is known for his micrographic portrait of Moses holding the Two Tablets of the Law composed of the Book of Devarim. See L. Avrin, Micrography As Art (1981) pl. 100.