Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Washing Hands Upon Leaving the Cemetery. |
Date |
1993 |
Scope & Content |
Postcard of an oil painting "Washing Hands Upon Leaving the Cemetery" at the Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic. Color print of oil painting on canvas in upper two thirds of postcard. The lower third of the postcard is white with black script: museum logo at right, title and date of the painting (circa 1772). in English and Czech at left. Verso: no manuscript, no postmark, no stamp, publication and copyright statement printed on bottom left in Czech. One in a series of 21 postcards included in a packet from the State Jewish Museum in Prague titled "The Cycle of Paintings of the Prague Burial Society". This is the fourteenth painting in the cycle. |
Object Name |
Postcard |
Collection |
Postcard Collection |
Catalog Number |
2013.056.001.p |
Search Terms |
Burial Practice Art Europe Death Dying Jewish |