Moroccan Peddler in London

Artist Unknown

ca. 1800

This hand-colored mezzotint depicts a street peddler selling sewing supplies and other dry goods in London. A growing number of Moroccan Muslim and Jewish traders came to England in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century because of a series of treaties between Morocco and Britain granting each other’s subjects the right to travel and conduct trade in both countries. Mezzotint and watercolor on paper, 5 5/8 x 4 1/4 in. (14.3 x 10.8 cm.).

Painting of a man in a turban with a box of sewing supplies

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Gift of Dr. Harry G. Friedman, the Jewish Museum, New York.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.

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Moroccan Peddler in London

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