About this image...

Image Title: The Holy Place, circa 1849

Creator: Camp, John Henry, 1822-1881, printer

Date: Between 1849 and 1853

Summary: Print shows, at center, a priest putting incense into a censer on "The Altar of Incense", a large portable stand with carrying rods on two sides; a small censer sits on the floor nearby. On the left is "The Golden Candlestick" and on the right is "The Table of Shewbread". A large curtain hangs in the background. The central scene is a printed flap, which can be raised to display an underlying scene of the "Holy of Holies" with a priest kneeling to the left of the "Ark of the Covenant".

Notes: Caption continues: The Golden Candlestick. Exod. XXV. 31-40. The Altar of Incense. Exod. XXX. 1-9. The Table of Shewbread. Exod. XXV. 23-30. Lev. XXIV. 5-9. On raising the Curtain is also seen the Holy of Holies with the Ark of the Covenant. Exod. XXV. 10-22.

Related Names: Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906|American Sunday-School Union

Subjects: Altars--1840-1860
Ark of the Covenant--1840-1850
Censers--1840-1860
Incense--1840-1860
Jews--Spiritual life--1840-1860
Judaism--1840-1860
Menorahs--1840-1860
Priests--1840-1860
Vestments--1840-1860

Original Media: Lithograph

Collections: Popular Graphic Arts

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