The Old Leaders and the New
Joseph Keppler
n.d.
Medium
Color lithograph on newsprint
Dimensions
Image: 46.2 × 29 cm (18 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 48.5 × 30.5 cm (19 1/8 × 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129212
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...