The Pope's Dream - A Roman Catholic America – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Pope's Dream - A Roman Catholic America. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Pope's Dream - A Roman Catholic America
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Pope Leo XIII, who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903, is the figure at the center of this 1889 color lithograph, published in *Puck* on July 24. Its title, "The Pope's Dream: A Roman Catholic America," frames the scene as the pope's imagined vision of the United States under Catholic influence. Joseph Keppler, the Austrian-born cartoonist who founded *Puck* in 1876, produced many such satirical images for the magazine. This cartoon appeared during a period of growing nativist anxiety about immigration and Catholic power in American public life, so it is worth reading as commentary on those fears as much as on the pope himself.
| Created / published | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Subjects | Color lithograph by Joseph Keppler. Illus. in: Puck, 1889 July 24. No file print. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--WORKS; Cartoons, US; Catholic Church; PI; Shelf. Leo XIII, Pope, 1810-1903. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 963 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129598 |
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