Renowned Noses 19th century US caricature contrasting the noses of two Jewish women

The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures. 

The print was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family. 

Renowned Noses 19th century US caricature contrasting the noses of two Jewish women 

overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) 

Cartoon, Namhafte Nasen [Renowned Noses] comparing two women, Lea and Ester, with very large, curved noses. The drawing was for Puck, America's first humor magazine, published in New York in both English and German language versions. This print is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials. 

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Illsutration from a magazine with line drawings of two women in left profile, so that their very large noses can be compared. Above their heads in German Fraktr text is the title: Namhafte Nasen. (Renowned Noses.) Both women have shoulder length ringlets, pulled back at the foreheads, an earrings, and are drawn from the waist up. The woman on the left, captioned Lea, has a smaller, but still prominent nose, and is younger, simply dressed, and full bosomed but slender. The woman on the right, Esther, is past middle age, plump, and has ribbons in her hair and lace on her neck and her front bodice.