La penitence des juif allemans dans peur synagogue - "Tshuvah of German Jews in the Synagogue" - engraving by Bernard Picart, depicting the custom of flogging in the Synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur, hand painted. Amsterdam, 1783.
The engraving is from the edition "Rites and Religious Customs of All the Peoples of the World" published in Amsterdam in 1783 and distributed in France by Laporte, the bookseller rue des noyers in Paris.
Mounted to a passepartout base surrounded by a golden frame. Engraving: 33x21 cm. Frame: 54x39 cm. Very good condition.
