Studies of the interior of Plymouth Synagogue

Solomon Alexander Hart, RA (1806-1881)

August 1830

Pencil on cream wove paper

252 mm X 168 mm

Collection of the Royal Academy of Arts

Object number 03/7334

Bequeathed by Richard Phené Spiers, 1916

Plymouth Synagogue, built between 1761-63, is one of the oldest in Britain, and (according to the synagogue's own website) is "the oldest Ashkenazi Synagogue still in regular use in the English-speaking world." [Commentary continues below.]

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