In Memoriam.

MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES.

1885

Lithograph. Tear to upper left corner, image unaffected. Some minor creases. Framed.

Cf. Richard I. Cohen, Jewish Icons (1998) p. 150, fig. 86. Not in Rubens.

Below the portrait are the Montefiore coat-of-arms along with his signature. Portrait within mistletoe surround, noted in Hebrew: “Petersburg, Rome, Morocco, Constantinople, Damascus, Jerusalem,” all names of places Sir Moses visited in his untiring efforts on behalf of the oppressed Jewish people. Finally, at bottom, the hero is lionized as “Gibor be-milchamoth Hashem, po’el tzedakoth le-amo” [A fighter in the wars of the Lord, a philanthropist to his people.]