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The rival Sunday shows in Brooklyn / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lithographers, N.Y. – Antique Wall Art

The rival Sunday shows in Brooklyn / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lithographers, N.Y., 1878 Oct. 23. — antique lithograph
The rival Sunday shows in Brooklyn / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lithographers, N.Y., 1878 Oct. 23.. Antique lithograph from the Brooklyn collection.

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Here the title itself sets the scene: the Brooklyn clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and T. De Witt Talmage are cast as rival performers, with their Sunday sermons treated as competing entertainments. Beecher preached at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights, and Talmage led the Brooklyn Tabernacle, both drawing large weekly crowds in the 1870s. Joseph Keppler, who later founded the magazine *Puck*, drew the cartoon, and it ran as a two-page color spread in the October 23, 1878 issue. The piece reflects the period's appetite for satire aimed at celebrity preachers and at the theatrical side of urban religious life.

Created / published1878 Oct. 23.
Medium1 print (2 pages) : lithograph, color.
GenreCartoons (Commentary) 1870-1880.Periodical illustrations 1870-1880.Lithographs Color 1870-1880.
NotesIllus. in: Puck, 1878 Oct. 23, pp. 8-9.
SubjectsBeecher, Henry Ward,--1813-1887. Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt),--1832-1902. Religion--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,730 × 3,786 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219660

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