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Jewish Women from Izmir Whitewashing
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In the nineteenth century, especially in the era before photography, it was common for artists to travel to exotic or picturesque locations in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, and to produce…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)

Date:

1830

Subjects:

Sephardic, Crafts, Women, Print, Art

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Print & Book Culture
Lithograph of two women washing walls in room with checkered floor.
“L’aigle déplumé! . . .” (The Bald Eagle!)
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This caricature of Napoleon III (1808–1873), the last monarch of France, was made after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), when Napoleon was being held in captivity in…

Contributor:

Alphonse Lévy

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1870–1871

Subjects:

Print, Art, Government, Humor, Politics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Print & Book Culture
Print depicting a man's head wearing helmet on an eagle's body chained to a perch and French caption.
Triumph des Jahres 1813 (Triumph of the Year 1813)
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This caricature by the Henschel brothers celebrates the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Leipzig in December 1813. This battle, the final in Napoleon’s “German Campaign,” is also known as the…

Contributor:

Gebrüder Henschel

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1813

Subjects:

Government, Death, Print, Portrait, Ashkenazi

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Print & Book Culture
Profile hand-colored etching of man, with line drawings of bodies on his face, wearing a hat in the shape of crow, and shirt and epaulets in the shape of a map with hand outstretched over it.