The Triumph of Boodle, from Boodle
Joseph Keppler
n.d.
Medium
Color lithograph on newsprint
Dimensions
35.5 × 49.5 cm (14 × 19 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129228
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...