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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.
Burial Society Cup
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This silver beaker is one of two commissioned by the Burial Society of Worms in the eighteenth century. Beakers were used at the ceremony inducting members into the society at its annual banquet…

Contributor:

Johann Conrad Weiss

Places:

Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)

Date:

1711/1712

Subjects:

Ritual object, Ritual & observance, Mourning, Burial society, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Ritual Objects, Decorative Arts
Silver cup with Hebrew inscription.