Immolation of the Jew! Product:Canvas in his sedan chair

in his sedan chair

St Leonard's Church

It stood until 1882

The man is wearing a formal frock coat and silk cravat

Interior of the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields

Immolation of the Jew! Product:Canvas in his sedan chair'Immolation of the Jew!', 1835. A platform with a steaming cauldron labelled Christian intolerance. Two figures stand over the cauldron, to which ascends David Salomons, refusing the Lord Mayor's entreaty to renounce the Jewish faith in order to become an Alderman. Salomons was a leading figure in the campaign for Jewish emancipation in Britain in the 19th century. He was eventually elected an Alderman in 1847 and went on to become the first Jewish