Renowned Noses 19th century US caricature contrasting the noses of two Jewish women
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
Creator(s)
- 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 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
Cartoon, Namhafte Nasen [Renowned Noses] comparing two women, Lea and Ester, with very large, curved noses. The drawing was for Puck, America's first humor magazine, published in New York in both English and German language versions. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Illsutration from a magazine with line drawings of two women in left profile, so that their very large noses can be compared. Above their heads in German Fraktr text is the title: Namhafte Nasen. (Renowned Noses.) Both women have shoulder length ringlets, pulled back at the foreheads, an earrings, and are drawn from the waist up. The woman on the left, captioned Lea, has a smaller, but still prominent nose, and is younger, simply dressed, and full bosomed but slender. The woman on the right, Esther, is past middle age, plump, and has ribbons in her hair and lace on her neck and her front bodice.
Subjects
- Jews--United States--19th century--Periodicals--Pictorial works.
- Jewish women--Caricatures and cartoons--United States--19th century.
- Antisemitism in art--United States--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Jews in art--United States--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art.
Genre
- Art
- Object