Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague
Tilted gravestones and low tombs crowd a cemetery beneath leafless branches. Repeated slabs lead the eye from the dark foreground into the enclosure behind them. The illustration accompanies Crawford’s meditation on generations of people and their shared mortality, connecting the city’s burial ground with the novel’s wider preoccupation with memory.
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William John Hennessy. "The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague" [editorial title]. In The Witch of Prague, F. Marion Crawford. 1901 reissue, 1901, Macmillan and Co., Limited. Source scan leaf 105. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0168-0102
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William John Hennessy. The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague. The Witch of Prague. Scan leaf 105. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0168-0102