Title: Habit blanc du Grand Prêtre, pour le jour de L'expiation solemnelle (White Habit of the High Priest, for the Day of Solemn Atonement).
Dimensions: Image 11 1/2" x 7 3/4". Sheet 15 1/4" x 9 1/2"
Edition: Calmet, Augustin, 1672-1757. Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible, enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures en taille-douce, qui représentent les antiquitez judaïques. Par le Reverend Pere Dom Augustin Calmet,... Paris, 1722-1728. [Many Illustrations were drawn by J. B. Martin, engraved by Ph. Simonneau, J. Lebas, J. B. Scotin, P. Starckman, and De Beren (University of Leeds)].
Date: 1722.
Materials and Techniques: copper-plate engraving on laid paper.
Watermark: yes.
Mat and Frame: no.
Condition: Left edge cut unevenly. A note in pencil on blank verso. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: Calmet, Augustin, 1672-1757. Dictionnaire historique,... Tome I, p.294. Paris, 1722.
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Note: Book of Leviticus 16:4.
"He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen miter shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on."
The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, is the holiest and most solemn day on the Jewish calendar.
Depicted High Priest holds an incense burner and a ritual basin.