print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.596
- Title
- Object: Der Wein Jud.
- Description
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An broadside satirising Jewish wine merchants as greedy usurers and religious enemies; with an engraving signed SV showing a wine barrel on a carriage driven by the devil, on the barrel a large, double-faced figure of a wine merchant, behind him on the barrel a fox dragging in a net a group of poor people, in the left background a meagre vineyard, and on the right a wine cellar run by devils; with engraved Latin and German inscriptions, title, and text, and with German letterpress text in three columns, the letterpress with two vertical segments and a frame of type ornaments. (n.p.: [1629])
- Production date
- 1629
- Dimensions
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Height: 237 millimetres (engraving)
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Height: 277 millimetres (printed area)
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Width: 321 millimetres (engraving)
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Width: 320 millimetres (printed area)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Harms suggests Trier as publication place.
This broadside relates to the general shortage of basic foodstuff during the Thirty Years' War, including wine. By 1629, many German vineyards and fields were greatly damaged so that regular harvests were not possible anymore. According to the broadside, the impoverished winegrowers became increasingly dependent on (Jewish) wine merchants, who dictated the prices for the grapes, and granted extortionate loans to the growers in times of crisis. Furthermore, the merchants controlled the wine transport and production, which, as the broadside claims, resulted in fraud and exploitation of the customers who, for example, bought overpriced and watered-down wine.
For another, though incomplete broadside, see BM 1873-7-12-130.
For a related, similar broadside on wine and corn merchants, see BM 1880-7-10-595.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.596