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James Harwood (born 1818)
Interior of the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, London
Signed and dated 1834, oil on panel
35.8 x 29.3 cm
The great synagogue of London was founded in 1690 when an Ashkenazi community was established. On May 11, 1941, just one year after its 250th anniversary, the Great Synagogue was totally destroyed by fire as the result of a German bombing attack on Central London. Though engravings, drawings and watercolours are known to have been made of the interior of the Great Synagogue, the painting of James Harwood is the only oilpainting ever made, as far as known.
For more information about the Great Synagogue, see Cecil Roth, The Great Synagogue London 1690-1940, London 1950.
For another interior of the Great Synagogue by Pugin and Rowlandson at 1809, see Barnet Catalogue of the Jewish Museum London, no. 954 plate IV.
See illustration
Interior of the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, London
Signed and dated 1834, oil on panel
35.8 x 29.3 cm
The great synagogue of London was founded in 1690 when an Ashkenazi community was established. On May 11, 1941, just one year after its 250th anniversary, the Great Synagogue was totally destroyed by fire as the result of a German bombing attack on Central London. Though engravings, drawings and watercolours are known to have been made of the interior of the Great Synagogue, the painting of James Harwood is the only oilpainting ever made, as far as known.
For more information about the Great Synagogue, see Cecil Roth, The Great Synagogue London 1690-1940, London 1950.
For another interior of the Great Synagogue by Pugin and Rowlandson at 1809, see Barnet Catalogue of the Jewish Museum London, no. 954 plate IV.
See illustration