print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1871,0429.720
- Description
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The Jew stabbing the communion host with a spear, the host hung on a pillar and blood pouring from it, the two children watching with apprehension; illustration to "The Miraculous Host" (1822)
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1822
- Dimensions
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Height: 78 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 122 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- One of a series of illustrations produced by George Cruikshank for William Hone's political pamphlet:
"The Miraculous Host Tortured by the Jew Under the Reign of Philip the Fair in 1290: Being one of the Legends which converted the daughters and niece of Douglas Loveday Esq. Under the Reign of Louis XVIII in 1821."
See PPA 20101, 1865,1111, 468.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2015 - 2016 5 Nov - 21 Feb, London, Jewish Museum, Blood: The Life of the Flesh
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Miraculous Host (Tortured by the Jew, Under the Reign of Philip the Fair, in 1290.)
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,0429.720