Caption:
The expulsion of the Jews from Spain by Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, 31 March 1492. Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, left, pleads before the queen for the recission of the edict but the Grand Inquisitor Thomas de Torquemada, crucifix in hand, convinces her. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.