Photographed by W. Kurtz.
(Wood Engraving 6¾ × 4⅞.)[¹]
p. 241.
[¹] Century, October, 1888.
★LEON (LEÃO) [TEMPLO], Jacob Judah Aryeh de Abraham de.
1603–1675 ?)
Iaacob Ievda Leon Hebreo Ætat Svæ XXXVIIII.
(Line Engraving 7 × 5⅜.)[¹]
p. 44.
[¹] This portrait is a brilliant specimen of the graver’s art, but as it is a proof before the inscription to the lower part, neither the name of the delineator nor the engraver is known. The lettering round the portrait tells us that “Iaacob Ievda Leon” was then thirty-nine years of age, which would fix 1642 as the year it was done. Albert Wolf (1841–1907), in his article on “Die Portraits des Jakob Jehuda Leone” (Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenchaft des Judenthums ... Januar 1900 ... Berlin ... pp. 41–43) does not mention it. It is tentatively suggested that it is the work of Salom Italia, whose well-known signed portrait★ (7 × 5³⁄₁₀) has the following legend encompassing it:—