CIRCA 1787, PRINTED BY J. ANSLEY, LANE END.

As noted by F.W. Modder in The Jew in the Literature of England, Lord George Gordon, younger son of the Duke of Gordon, was an instigator of the so-called 'Gordon Riots'. One rioter among the twenty-five executed was a Jew named Samuel Solomons. Lord Gordon was himself arrested on high treason but acquitted. Shortly thereafter he publically confessed his love for the Jews and in 1787 converted. This event became the subject of numerous contemporary jibes and cartoons such as that illustrated on the present cup.