File:Lord George Riot made a Jew. (BM 1868,0808.5448).jpg

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Lord George Riot made a Jew.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Lord George Riot made a Jew.
Description
English: Lord George Gordon lies on his back on a table, having just undergone circumcision by a young Jewess who stands at his feet (right). Behind her stands a Rabbi (right) with an open book. On the left stand a Jewish dealer in old clothes and his wife. In front sits a boy with a pedlar's box, picking Gordon's pocket. September 1785 [Attributed, by George, to 1 October 1785]
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Date 1785
date QS:P571,+1785-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 117 millimetres
Width: 166 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5448
Notes

This illustration is from the salacious 'Rambler's Magazine' and it depicts the unexpected conversion to Judaism of Lord George Gordon (1751–93), the fanatical and controversial president of the newly formed Protestant Association. In 1780, over six days in June, following the anti-papist riots in Scotland, 50,000 rioters terrorized London, destroying chapels and houses belonging to Roman Catholics. Lord Gordon led the revolt having instigated the riots in Scotland the year before. Gordon, nicknamed “Lord George Riot”, was charged with high treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London, but was later acquitted.

In this image Lord Gordon is undergoing ritual circumcision (brit milah) at the improbable hands of woman, which adds gender tension to the distressing scene. The text in the 'Rambler' identifies the woman as the Rabbi’s daughter. Lord Gordon took the name Yisrael bar Avraham Gordon and lived as a Jew in Birmingham. The print was produced two years before his official conversion, said to be in 1787. The scene, therefore, satirises his interest in Judaism, rather than his actual conversion. As a result of the print, Lord Gordon also became known as “Lord Crop”.

An earthenware jug in the British Museum (see BEP 1893,0207.2) is printed with the same image.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5448
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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