No. 2 N'a qu'un oeil

Item Information

• Description
  Caricature of Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905) as an octopus with an eye patch. Alphonse was a member of the prominent Rothschild family of Jewish financiers that became easy targets for anti-semitic outrage during the Dreyfus Affair even though they had little or no direct involvement.

• Item ID
  mdhps010010060
• Source Collection
  Musée des horreurs [serial]
• Publisher
  [Paris] : Impr. G. Lenepveu, [1899-1900]
• Language
  fre
• Provenance
  Posters in Musée des Horreurs were acquired by the Rubenstein Library as a purchase, 2011-2012.
• Date
  1899
• Spatial Coverage
  France
  Paris (France)
• Creator
  Lenepveu, V.
• Extent
  26 x 20 in.
• Title
  No. 2 N'a qu'un oeil
• Type
  Text
  Image
  caricatures
  cartoons
  political cartoons
  posters
  lithographs
  hand-colored lithographs
• Subject
  Rothschild, Alphonse de, 1827-1905
  Antisemitism--France
  France--Politics and government--1870-1940

• Copyright & Usage
  The materials in this collection are made available for use in research, teaching and private study. Texts and images from this collection may not be used for any commercial purpose without prior permission from Duke University.