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(SHABTHAI TZVI & NATHAN OF GAZA) - Two half-length portraits. Featuring the 17th century pseudo-Messiah, wearing turban with right hand pointing at a book. Titled below: “Sabetha Sebi. Vermeynden Messias der Ioden.” * With: His amanuensis. Titled below: “Nathan Levi van Gaza. Propheet van den Ioodschen Messias.” 7.5 x 11 inches (19.5 x 28 cm) sheet size. Couple tiny tears at margins, touch stained. Matted. Rubens, Jewish Iconography nos. 2232 and 1463. c. 1670 Matching pair of etchings of the False Messiah and his Prophet.