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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.
Schraubtaler (Screw Medal) of Jud Süss Oppenheimer
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)

Date:

1738

Subjects:

Crafts, Crime, Death, Antisemitism, Ashkenazi

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Coins
19 illustrations in circular frames connected by ribbon of different painted scenes of man's life from birth to gallows, and two coins, one with gallows and the other with the profile of a man.