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Print depicting the finance committee from the series Hollandia Regenerata

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    Print depicting the finance committee from the series Hollandia Regenerata

    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    This etching of the Committee of Finance is the fourth in the twenty plate series, Hollandia Regenerata. The series was originally illustrated by Swiss soldier and caricaturist, David Hess, as a satirical commentary on the newly created, French-supported Batavian Republic. The images were refined and etched by James Gillray, and published in 1796, likely by Hannah Humphrey of London, England. In December 1792, the French Republic decreed that it would declare the sovereignty of the people in nations it helped liberate. The Batavian Republic (now the Netherlands) was one such country, formed in January 1795. While Batavia had many leaders and committees, it was subject to governance by France, which had supported the nation’s liberation. France expected repayment from liberated nations for expenses incurred while participating in “common defense.” This etching depicts the outcome of this financial burden, with Committee of Finance members looking at coffers drained to repay the French, and an excess of worthless paper currency forced on them. In search of money to run the nation, one committee member discusses a questionable scheme to produce hard currency with a Jewish man. The man is heavily bearded with a hooked nose, and wears a fur hat and long-coat; all stereotypical features and clothing commonly attributed to Jews. The transaction also furthers the antisemitic stereotypes of the greedy Jew who exploits Gentiles for their own economic advantage, and Jewish control of finance. These stereotypes originate from the economic and professional restrictions placed on early European Jews, which forced many into occupations such as money changing or money lending. They were perceived as morally deficient and willing to engage in unethical business practices. The etching is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.
    Title
    Het Committé van Financie
    Alternate Title
    The Committee of Finance
    Series Title
    Hollandia Regenerata
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1796
    Geography
    publication: London (England)
    depiction: Netherlands
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, within image, center, empty sack, printed, red ink : ils ont émigré [they have emigrated]
    front, within image, right, upper bundle, printed, red ink : RECIPISSEN. [RECEIPTS]
    front, within image, right, lower bundle, printed, red ink : ASS(I?)GNATS [REVOLUTIONARY FRENCH PAPER CURRENCY]
    front, bottom center, red ink : HET COMMITTÉ VAN FINANCIE. [THE COMMITTEE OF FINANCE]
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Printer: James Gillray
    Artist: David Hess
    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
    Dutch French
    Classification
    Art
    Category
    Prints
    Object Type
    Etching (lcsh)
    Genre/Form
    Prints.
    Physical Description
    Print of an etching in red ink on tan paper, removed from a bound set. The image depicts an interior scene with several men arranged around an open, but empty chest with a broken lock and a horned demon inside. On the far left is a Jewish man with a fur hat (possibly a shtreimel), long coat, full beard, and large, hooked nose. He holds out a tiny demon, its pants down, excreting coins onto the dish that supports it. The Jew gestures with his left hand, as he converses with a rotund man in a tricorn hat standing opposite him, while holding the other side of the dish and pointing upward. In the center, in front of the chest, a well-dressed man wearing a liberty cap upends an empty sack as he looks over his shoulder at the horned demon. Behind the chest is a wigged man with glasses, raising his arms over his head as he looks inside. To the right, a well-dressed man looks over his shoulder and frowns as another man - with his arms extended - attempts to keep a set of shelves with large bundles of “Recipissen” and “Assignants” from falling toward the group. The title is centered at the bottom in Dutch, and the plate number is printed in the top left corner. The page has an irregular edge where it was cut from the binding. The edges are discolored, and there are small, brown and black spots throughout.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink

    Rights & Restrictions

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

    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    London (England) Netherlands.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The print 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 18:13:43
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