Lot 358
The Jewish Ghetto In Turin - Engraving, 1737
Vue d'un des quatre angles de la Maison des Iuifs Illuminees. Engraving showing a building in the Jewish ghetto in Turin. [Turin, Italy], 1737.
Engraving by Cajetanus Blancus, after Joseph maria Piovanus and Bernardus Vitonus. Titled (in French and Italian), signed and dated in the plate.
The engraving appeared in the book "La Sontuosa illuminazione della citta di Torino", printed in Turin in 1737 for the wedding of Carlo Emanuele III and Princess Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine.
Engraving: approx. 30X41 cm (leaf: 34X43 cm). Good-fair condition. Stains. Several tears repaired with paper pastings, with damage to engraving. Scribbles and pasting traces on reverse.
See:
1. Gardens and Ghettos, The Art of Jewish Life in Italy, edited by Vivian B. Mann. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1989, p. 251.
2. A. Rubens, A Jewish Iconography (London, 1981), no. 1695.
