A congregation of Jewish mourners performing the "Acafoth" at a funeral. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, ca. 1733.

This rite was performed in Holland, where the design of the plate representig this ceremony was drawn from life

After the coffin is nailed down, ten chosen persons of the most considerable relations and friends of the deceased turn seven times round the coffin, and all the time offer up their prayers to God for the departed soul

[Paris] : [publisher not identified]

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 14.7 x 20.3 cm

Les Acafoth ou les sept tours, autour du cercueil ... B. Picart delineavit ...

B. Picart, The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world ..., London 1733-1736

On the same sheet as ICV 42909 (this catalogue)

Wellcome Collection 44223i