The wandering Jew – Antique Print
(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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures The wandering Jew in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The wandering Jew
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Rather than a portrait or a scene from daily life, this color lithograph takes its title from an old legend about a man condemned to wander the earth until the Second Coming. Joseph Keppler, the Vienna-born cartoonist who founded the satirical weekly *Puck*, drew the design, and it ran across two pages of the January 9, 1901, issue. Keppler and his partner Adolph Schwarzmann copyrighted it, and the magazine's color cartoons were a major attraction for its readers. The catalog details come from an older caption card and have not been independently verified, so the scene's specific meaning is best checked against the magazine itself.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Notes | Color lithograph by J. Ottmann Lith. Co., after drawing by Keppler, copyrighted by Keppler & Schwarzmann. Illus. in: Puck, 1901 Jan. 9, pp. 8-9. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 930 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173323 |
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