Puck's Pleasant Prospect, from Puck
Joseph Keppler
published May 5, 1886
Medium
Color lithograph on newsprint
Dimensions
20.1 × 21.6 cm (7 15/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129238
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...