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Two's company three's a crowd – Antique Wall Art

Two's company three's a crowd, 1914 — historic print
Two's company three's a crowd, 1914. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Two's company three's a crowd, a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Two's company, three's a crowd" sets up a pair interrupted by an unwelcome third party, and this color halftone reproduces a drawing by Joseph Keppler as it appeared in *Puck* on February 28, 1914. Keppler founded the New York satirical weekly in 1877, and its lavish color cartoons were a fixture of American humor. The picture is linked to women, politics and suffrage, a subject hotly debated in 1914 as campaigns for the vote gained ground in several states. Worth noticing is how the halftone process translates Keppler's drawing into printed color, a method that let magazines like *Puck* carry full-color images to a wide readership.

Created / published1914
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone, color.
SubjectsColor halftone repro. of drawing by Keppler. Illus. in: Puck, 1914 Feb. 28, pp. 10-11. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - WOMEN--POLITICS AND SUFFRAGE--1914. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,034 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-173475

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