In memoriam.

MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES

1885

Lithograph. Tear to upper left hand corner, image unaffected. Some minor creases. Gilt frame

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

Below the portrait are the Montefiore coat-of-arms and signature, “Moses Montefiore.” In Hebrew in the mistletoe surround: “Petersburg, Rome, Morocco, Constantinople, Damascus, Jerusalem,” 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]