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Postage Stamp
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When the company owned by Jacob Abraham Jesurun (1806–1875) obtained a contract for mail delivery within the Caribbean in 1867, it had its own stamps printed featuring the firm’s initials, J. A. J. &…

Contributor:

Jacob Abraham Jesurun

Places:

Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1861

Subjects:

Crafts, Art, Sephardic, Economic life, Diaspora

Categories:

Decorative arts, Cartooning & graphic art
Postage stamp depicting ship and Portuguese lettering.
Portrait of Daniel Levi de Barrios and his family
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This phantasmagoric portrait of poet and playwright Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios and his family is from Imperio de Dios en la harmonia del mundo (God’s Empire in the Harmony of the World), a…

Contributor:

Aron de Chavez

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1689

Subjects:

Portrait, Family, Angels, demons & deities, Music

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print portrait of seated figure with a dragon under his feet and an angel above him, next to an armed figure standing and holding a flag, and a boy pointing to the angel, with Spanish text around the edge and in several places in the scene.