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Comic color drawing of a Jewish peddler arguing with a woman

Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.285

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    Comic color drawing of a Jewish peddler arguing with a woman

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    19th century watercolor drawing depicting an unpleasant looking Jewish peddler arguing with a farmwife while two boys steal money from the back of his wagon. The painting is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
    Artwork Title
    The Jew Peddler
    Date
    creation:  approximately 1870
    Geography
    creation: Hungary
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Signature
    front, bottom right corner, black paint : Varga
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    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

    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Drawings
    Object Type
    Cartoons (lcsh)
    Physical Description
    Drawing in watercolor on paper depicting a Jewish peddler seated in his wagon arguing with a farmwife. He has an extremely large curved nose, red fleshy lips, curly sidelocks and beard, and wears a crumpled black top hat, jacket, and trousers. He holds up 2 fingers of his left hand and gestures at a filled bowl held by a barefoot woman in a red kerchief and blue dress talking to him with an angry expression. The peddler's wooden rack wagon is filled with sacks. At the back are 2 boys: 1 is perched on the wagon rim and is throwing coins from a box in the wagon which the other boy is catching in a bowl. A skinny horse is hitched to the wagon front. In the background is a hill with 2 houses and another woman walking down a pathway.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, watercolor

    Rights & Restrictions

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

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The painting 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 18:30:22
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    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn539091

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