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A mid-summer day's dream--While our artist sleeps, his favorite subjects are left to do justice to themselves, and to correct his conceptions / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lith., N.Y. – Antique Print

A mid-summer day's dream--While our artist sleeps, his favorite subjects are left to do justice to themselves, and to correct his conceptions / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lith., N.Y., 1881 Aug. 10. — antique lithograph
A mid-summer day's dream--While our artist sleeps, his favorite subjects are left to do justice to themselves, and to correct his conceptions / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lith., N.Y., 1881 Aug. 10.. Antique lithograph from the Fine Art Prints 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 A mid-summer day's dream--While our artist sleeps, his favorite subjects are left to do justice to themselves, and to correct his conceptions / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lith., N.Y., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A mid-summer day's dream--While our artist sleeps, his favorite subjects are left to do justice to themselves, and to correct his conceptions / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann, lith., N.Y.

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Joseph Keppler's two-page color lithograph, published in *Puck* on August 10, 1881, shows the artist asleep while his favorite caricature subjects take over his work to correct his conceptions. The record names Samuel J. Tilden and Ulysses S. Grant among those subjects, two political figures whose names were frequently in the news of the period. Keppler, a Vienna-born cartoonist who co-founded *Puck* in 1876, made the satirical magazine a leading showcase for this kind of commentary. The lithograph was printed in New York by Mayer, Merkel & Ottmann and ran across pages 388 and 389 of that issue.

Created / published1881 Aug. 10.
Medium1 print (2 pages) : lithograph, color.
GenreCaricatures 1880-1890.Cartoons (Commentary) 1880-1890.Periodical illustrations 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890.
NotesIllus. in: Puck, 1881 Aug. 10, pp. 388-389.
SubjectsKeppler, Joseph Ferdinand,--1838-1894. Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones),--1814-1886. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885. Cartoonists--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,657 × 3,826 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219661

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