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1. Harmanus Langerveld (1777-1830). David Henriques de Castro, pastel / crayon, 1815

Harmanus Langerveld (1777-1830). David Henriques de Castro, pastel / crayon, 1815

Date:: 1987
Description:: Postcard with a reproduction of a portrait by Harmanus Langerveld of merchant David Haim Henriques de Castro (1776-1845).

2. [Large Boots]

Date:: 1800
Description:: Hand-colored etched caricature of merchant Jacob Franco (1762-1817), member of a prominent Sephardic family in England. Described as "Mr. Franco, a gentleman then well known on the turf, of Jewish descent, which is indicated by the pigs." Caricature by James Gillray. Published May 25, 1800, by Hannah Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street.

3. [Large Boots]

Date:: 1800
Description:: Black-and-white etched caricature of merchant Jacob Franco (1762-1817), member of a prominent Sephardic family in England. Described as "Mr. Franco, a gentleman then well known on the turf, of Jewish descent, which is indicated by the pigs." Caricature by James Gillray. Published May 25, 1800, by Hannah Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street.

4. A Great Man on Change

A Great Man on Change

Date:: 1818
Description:: Hand-colored etched satirical portrait of merchant Samuel Samuel (1775-1873). Drawn, etched, and published by Richard Dighton, January 1818. Reissue published by Thomas McLearn, 26 Haymarket, 1824.

5. Salomon Heine

Date:: 1858
Description:: Black-and-white steel engraved portrait of merchant and banker Salomon Heine. From Neues Conversations-Lexikon für alle Stände, Volume 8, by Hermann Julius Meyer.

6. Henry Simons, (The Polish Jew)

Henry Simons, (The Polish Jew)

Date:: 1820
Description:: Black-and-white engraved portrait of merchant Henry Simons, who came to prominence as the result of a legal action for assault and robbery brought against him in 1753. From Portraits, memoirs, and characters of remarkable persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II, Volume 3, by James Caulfield, published London: T. H. Whitely.