A Stir in the Roost, from America
Joseph Keppler
published December 12, 1889, originally published in Puck on March 18, 1876
Medium
Lithograph on newsprint
Dimensions
30 × 20.6 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129275
About the Artist
Joseph Keppler · 1838–1894
Joseph Keppler (1838–1894) was an Austrian-born American caricaturist, cartoonist, and illustrator who became the most influential political satirist in Gilded Age America, founding the celebrated humor magazine Puck and establishing chromolithographic political caricature as a major force in American public life. Born in Vienna, Keppler trained as an actor and showed early gifts as a draftsman, c...