Aquatint of people seen on the street, including a Jewish peddler
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm)
Creator(s)
- Joseph Gleadah (Artisan)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- S. W. Fores (Publisher)
Biographical History
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
Archival History
The aquatint was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Print of public London characters by an unknown artist published in 1827. Such picturesque scenes of urban life were the most lastingly popular series of English prints. The series known as London Cries, often featured outcasts or poor people who made their living on the London streets, such as street vendors, often Jewish, selling fruit, rag, ribbons, and trinkets, laborers, street musicians, and beggars. The street people were usually depicted as diligent workers deserving respect, not as nuisances or figures of fun. They were recognized for the color and conveniences they brought to city life. Pictures depicting public characters and a broader ranges of social types and classes became especially popular in the early 19th century. Scenes he aquatint is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Etched aquatint, handcolored, on paper of an illustration of 20 people from various social classes dressed in colorful, stereotypical costumes walking in both directions along a wide pathway. From the left, a girl and woman in torn clothes peddle goods; behind them walk a man with a tray of figurines and a turbanned man. Next a Scotsman in a red plaid suit and tam plays bagpipes near 2 performers, 1 exceptionally tall, possibly John Liston, one a dwarf, in front of a clergyman, Edward Irving. Near the the front edge a woman sells brooms near a boy playing with a wooden pull toy. To the left, a bearded Jewish peddler with large sack, wearing several hats, walks past a man carting goods on his back. Next a nursemaid yells at a child, near a man with a crate resting on a post; behind them walks a widow, and then a dandy smoking a stem pipe. Finally, a singing female fiddler, then a barefoot, black man. The caption is along the bottom. The print has been unevenly cut.
Subjects
- Jews--Great Britain--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Cries--England--London--Pictorial works.
- Jews in art.
- Social classes--Great Britain--Pictorial works.
- Jewish peddlers--Pictorial works.
- Great Britain--Social classes--Pictorial works.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
Genre
- Art
- Object