Immolation of the Jew! Henry Milbourne Horse Guards Parade

Horse Guards Parade

Interior view of Queen's Bench Prison

Banquet at the Guildhall

The empty courtyard of an inn with stables at the far end

Immolation of the Jew! Henry Milbourne Horse Guards Parade'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