The Democratic Samson and the Republican Philistines, from Puck
Joseph Keppler
published September 15, 1880
Medium
Color lithograph on newsprint
Dimensions
Image: 28.7 × 47 cm (11 5/16 × 18 9/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 × 47.2 cm (12 1/16 × 18 5/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129188
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...