Print of 2 well dressed woman buying oranges from a Jewish peddler
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Luigi Schiavonetti (Engraver)
- Colnaghi (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 print 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 depicting two elegantly dressed women buying oranges from a Jewish street vendor. It was made by Luigi Schiavonetti after a painting by Francis Wheatley. This print was included in the 1924 book, Cries of London, record 2016.184.686, a set of thirteen prints depicting London street workers. These picturesque scenes of urban outcasts, known as London Cries, poor people who made their living on the London streets, were the most lastingly popular series of English prints. The pictures feature street vendors, such as Jewish fruit, rag, or ribbon sellers, and depict them as diligent workers deserving respect, not as nuisances or figures of fun. The print is one of 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
Original print created in 1794; this is likely a later reproduction.
Subjects
- Jewish peddlers--Great Britain--Pictorial works.
- Great Britain--Social classes--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Great Britain--18th century--Pictorial works.
- Social classes--Great Britain--Pictorial works.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
- Cries--England--London--Pictorial works.
- Jews in art--18th century.
Genre
- Object
- Art