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Aquatint of people seen on the street, including a Jewish peddler

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    Aquatint of people seen on the street, including a Jewish peddler

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    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.
    Artwork Title
    Public Characters
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1827 February 01
    Geography
    publication: London (England)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, bottom left, black ink : W Heath delt. [engraver]
    front, bottom center, black ink : PUBLIC CHARACTERS.
    front, bottom right, black ink: Aquatinted by J.Gleadah.
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Publisher: S. W. Fores
    Artisan: Joseph Gleadah
    Biography
    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.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Prints
    Physical Description
    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.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The aquatint was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by 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.
    Special Collection
    Katz Ehrenthal Collection
    Record last modified:
    2023-09-15 10:17:14
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