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Print with 6 vignettes of a monk, a soldier, and a Jew

Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.177

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    Print with 6 vignettes of a monk, a soldier, and a Jew

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    The etching is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
    Artwork Title
    Sayings and Doings
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1824-1827
    Geography
    publication: London (England)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, top center, black ink : SAYINGS and DOINGS.
    front, middle, below images, black ink : Saying. Saying. Saying.
    front, bottom, below images, black ink : Doing. Doing. Doing.
    front, bottom center, black ink : Published by William Cole, 10 Newgate Street.
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Publisher: William Cole
    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
    Color print with 6 vignettes, 3 at the top and 3 at the bottom, with contrasting depictions of a monk, a soldier, and a Jewish man. In the top left, the monk is thin, wears a plain blue robe with a simple cross and no shoes, and kneels at an altar in prayer. In the bottom left, he is fat, wears a red striped robe with 2 large, gold crosses and sandals, and sits, smiling, at a table while a woman serves him a large meal. In the top center the soldier, in a red and blue military uniform with a bearskin hat, holds up a sword and lunges toward a dummy as a woman, a boy, and 2 soldiers watch. In the bottom center, the bearskin hat is missing and he flees, empty hands above his head, from a soldier in a green uniform who jabs a bayonet at him. In the top right, the Jewish man frowns and holds up 1 hand as he walks away from a table where a diner looks at him and holds up a piece of pork. He wears a green coat and has hooded eyes, a large nose, and a long beard. In the bottom right, he sits at a table in an empty room, smiles, and holds a knife and fork over a large serving of pork. Captions are printed above, between, and below the vignettes.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 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 etching 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:
    2022-07-28 18:30:19
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