Auction 70

Color Illustration of the Binding of Yitzchak - Jerusalem, 1920

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Color decoration for the Sukkah – on its upper part, an illustration of the moment the angel stops Abraham, with Yitzchak bound and Jerusalem in the background. On the lower part: an illustration of Avraham, Yitzchak, Yishma’el, Eliezer and the donkey on the way to the binding. At the top of the leaf, from right to left: two medallions depicting Rachel’s Tomb and the Western Wall. Around the leaf, verses from Parashat HaAkeida. 

At the tope of the leaf, the title:  "לשנה טובה יכתב ויחתם". 24X34 cm. Mounted on a larger cardboard. Good condition. On its verso, foreign notations in pencil. Have not been studied. Apparently, about the illustration and its significance.