Black-and-white engravings depicting the Passover custom of the mother placing bits of unleavened bread for the father and children to discover and dispose of, above, and a Passover seder of Portuguese Jews in Amsterdam, below. Engraving by Claude Du Bosc after Bernard Picart. From The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World : together with historical annotations and several curious discourses... Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates designed by Mr. Bernard Picart, and curiously engraved by most of the best hands in Europe..., Volume 1, published London: William Jackson and Claude Dubosc, 1733-1739.
Hand-colored aquatint of Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. After a drawing by Luigi Mayer. From Views in Palestine, from the original drawings of Luigi Mayer / Vues en Palestine, d'après les dessins originaux de Luigi Mayer, published London: R. Bowyer, 1804.
Hand-colored aquatint of the Tombs of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. After a drawing by Luigi Mayer. From Views in Palestine, from the original drawings of Luigi Mayer / Vues en Palestine, d'après les dessins originaux de Luigi Mayer, published London: R. Bowyer, 1804.
Hand-colored aquatint of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. After a drawing by Luigi Mayer. From Views in Palestine, from the original drawings of Luigi Mayer / Vues en Palestine, d'après les dessins originaux de Luigi Mayer, published London: R. Bowyer, 1804.
Black-and-white engraving of the Tomb of Absalom in Jerusalem. Engraving by Edward Radclyffe after a drawing by Thomas Allom. From Syria, the Holy Land, & Asia Minor, Volume 3, by John Carne, published London: Fischer, Son & Co.
Black-and-white engravings depicting Sukkot at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, above, and Portuguese Jews in a sukkah during Sukkot, below. Engraving by Claude Du Bosc after Bernard Picart. From The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World : together with historical annotations and several curious discourses... Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates designed by Mr. Bernard Picart, and curiously engraved by most of the best hands in Europe..., Volume 1, published London: William Jackson and Claude Dubosc, 1733-1739.
