No. 42 Nathan Mayer ou l’origine des milliards

Item Information

• Description
  Caricature of Nathan Meyer Rothschild (1777-1836) as a dog scavenging gold pieces on the battlefield of Waterloo. Nathan Meyer Rothschild, a Jew and member of the British House of Lords, 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
  mdhps010010460
• 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
  1900
• Spatial Coverage
  France
  Paris (France)
• Creator
  Lenepveu, V.
• Extent
  26 x 20 in.
• Title
  No. 42 Nathan Mayer ou l’origine des milliards
• Type
  Text
  Image
  caricatures
  cartoons
  political cartoons
  posters
  lithographs
  hand-colored lithographs
• Subject
  Rothschild, Nathan Meyer, 1777-1836
  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.