Cartoon of a Jewish man learning his brother was consumed as pickled pork
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Width: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm)
Creator(s)
- Giles Grinagain (Printmaker)
- S. W. Fores (Publisher)
- Giles Grinagain (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 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
Early 19th century antisemitic British print making cruel fun of a Jewish man who has discovered that his dead brother, who had been shipped back to England from Jamaica, was taken for pickled pork and eaten during the voyage. Adding to this outrageous insult, the cartoon also ridicules his speech and appearance. The artist's name, Giles Grinagain, is a pseudonym. 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
Unevenly trimmed color print on discolored light brown paper of a shipping office where a caricatured Jewish man argues with the shopkeeper over an empty barrel labeled: PICKLE PORK / entered at Jamaica / Mr. Moses Abrams / London. The Jewish man has a long, hooked nose with nose hairs, longish hair and a pointy beard, and wears a black tricorn hat and blue frock coat. He has an angry expression and downturned mouth and is gesturing with upraised hands. Above him is a text balloon: Mine Cod? Mine Cod! Then you have eat mine Broder? He was die in Jamaica, and Sholomons Isaacs was make him Pickle to bury at our Shynagogues , Oh! mine poor Broder! mine Cod! Mine Cod! The shopkeeper wears a green coat and leans over a balustrade, pointing with a feather at the barrel. Above his head is a text balloon: We had, as you say, Sir, a cask consigned to you, but, owing to our Voyage being extremely long, we were compeld to expend your Pork. There is your cask and I shall with pleasure pay you the value of the meat.
Subjects
- Jews in art--Great Britain--19th century.
- Antisemitism--Caricatures and cartoons--Great Britain--Specimens.
- Jews--Caricatures and cartoons--Great Britain--19th century--Specimens.
- Antisemitism in art--Great Britain--19th century.
Genre
- Art
- Satires (Visual works)--British--19th century.
- Object