Getting Rid of the Spoils System Deadwood, from Puck
Joseph Keppler
published August 17, 1887
Medium
Color lithograph on newsprint
Dimensions
35.5 × 27 cm (14 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129248
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...