File:Moses chusing his cook (BM J,4.113).jpg
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[edit]Moses chusing his cook
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Print made by: Johann Heinrich Ramberg
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Moses chusing his cook |
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English: Lord George Gordon dines in Newgate surrounded by obsequious Jews. He sits in profile to the right before a small circular table; a Jew holding a plate offers him food in a spoon. Another Jew wearing a hat and old-fashioned laced waistcoat stands (right) holding a dish. Four others hasten towards the table from the right. A Jew wearing a gaberdine and skull-cap with a goat-like beard stands behind his chair; another wearing a hat and a voluminous gown stands full face on Gordon's left, holding up his arms in rapture at the distinguished convict. Through a stone archway (left) an English cook advances, carrying a sucking-pig on a dish. A grotesque-looking Jew is about to kick him; another, holding his nose, hastens after him, his arm raised threateningly. In the foreground (left) a spaniel gnaws a bone. Massive stone masonry and a barred window high up in the wall indicate Newgate. Gordon's lank hair falls on his shoulders and he has a beard, but he and the English cook are not caricatured. The Jews are of grotesque and exaggerated Jewish type, all with beards. 11 February 1788
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| Depicted people | Associated with: Lord George Gordon | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1788 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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J,4.113 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) For Gordon's conversion to Judaism and imprisonment see BMSat 7423. In Newgate he conformed in all respects to the Jewish religion, had six or eight persons to dinner daily and gave a ball once a fortnight. 'D.N.B.' See 'Trans. Jewish Hist. Soc.' vii. 268. Rubens, No. 137. Reissued by Fores, 1 Apr. 1803. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-4-113 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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