Print of gentile children stealing from a Jewish peddler
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)
Creator(s)
- Samuel Alken (Publisher)
- Thomas Rowlandson (Artist)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
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 etching 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
The etching 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
Color etching and aquatint of an old peddler with stereotypical Jewish features, including thick eyebrows, a large nose, and a long beard, wearing an orange coat and a black hat and breeches. He stands by the side of a road under an oak tree and looks up at 2 tossed coins that 3 gentile children on the right also watch. He holds a large brown basket of white clothes suspended from a strap over his shoulder. A dog at his feet looks up at it as 2 boys on either side of him reach into it. They are watched by 2 people by a row of shadowed houses set back on the left. Hazy tree silhouettes are in the background. The artist’s name and a date, T. Rowlandson 1785, are printed in black at the bottom. A caption is printed in a panel below the image.
Subjects
- Jews in art.
- Jewish peddlers--Pictorial works--18th century.
- Jews--Great Britain--18th century--Pictorial works.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
Genre
- Art
- Object