The Wedding dinner, or, Moses and the magistrate, vide London Tavern

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The title places the scene at the London Tavern, a large dining house in the City of London, and names a figure called Moses alongside a magistrate, so the print turns a wedding dinner into a joke about the guests and their community. Published in October 1812 by Walker & Knight of Sweeting Alley, it belongs to the wave of hand-colored satirical engravings sold in London during the Regency. Like many caricatures of the period, it relies on exaggerated features and stock stereotypes of Jewish Londoners, so today it is most useful as evidence of how prejudice was packaged as entertainment. Study the faces and the crowded table to see what the engraver found worth mocking.

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