Created in 1964, this image is part of a series of twelve lithographs which Chagall designed after the stain glass windows he created for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew Medical Center, located just outside of Jerusalem. The work was engraved and printed by Charles Sorlier in collaboration with Marc Chagall on watermarked Arches wove paper. This piece is numbered from the Roman numeral edition of 75 in pencil in the lower left margin (there was also an edition of 150 numbered in Arabic numbers).This piece is hand signed by by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887- Saint-Paul, 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin and signed in the stone in the lower right of the image. Also signed ‘CH. SORLIER. GRAV. LITH. in the stone in the lower left of the image.
