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Topographic Map of the city of Caracas
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Ángel Jacob Jesurún’s topographical map of Caracas, with its geometric grid, is the first map after Venezuela’s independence to be drawn and printed by a native of the city. After decades of war and…

Contributor:

Ángel Jacob Jesurún

Places:

Caracas, Venezuela

Date:

1843

Subjects:

Cities, Colonialism, Nationalism, Christian-Jewish relations, Sephardic, Architecture

Categories:

Print & book culture, Architecture
Topographic map, with place names in columns on left and right side and Spanish text below.
Spanish Edition of David Nieto’s Mateh Dan (The Tribe of Dan)
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This is a Spanish edition of David Nieto’s Mateh Dan (The Tribe of Dan). David Nieto’s best-known work constitutes a defense of the oral law and rabbinic tradition, addressed to former New Christians…

Contributor:

David Nieto

Places:

London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)

Date:

1714

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Bible, Christian-Jewish relations, Polemics

Categories:

Print & book culture, Biblical commentary
Printed page of Spanish text under decorative, columned archway with lintel featuring winged men with helmets holding banners on either side of portrait of bearded man holding a book.
Portrait of Daniel Levi de Barrios and his family
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This phantasmagoric portrait of poet and playwright Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios and his family is from Imperio de Dios en la harmonia del mundo (God’s Empire in the Harmony of the World), a…

Contributor:

Aron de Chavez

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1689

Subjects:

Portrait, Family, Angels, demons & deities, Music

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print portrait of seated figure with a dragon under his feet and an angel above him, next to an armed figure standing and holding a flag, and a boy pointing to the angel, with Spanish text around the edge and in several places in the scene.
Postage Stamp
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When the company owned by Jacob Abraham Jesurun (1806–1875) obtained a contract for mail delivery within the Caribbean in 1867, it had its own stamps printed featuring the firm’s initials, J. A. J. &…

Contributor:

Jacob Abraham Jesurun

Places:

Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

1861

Subjects:

Crafts, Art, Sephardic, Economic life, Diaspora

Categories:

Decorative arts, Cartooning & graphic art
Postage stamp depicting ship and Portuguese lettering.