"Mark Twain," America's best humorist / J. Keppler ; Mayer, Merkel & Ottman, Lith. 21-25 Warren St. N.Y.
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Print shows Mark Twain, full-length portrait, facing right, standing on stage, speaking to audience.
Puck was founded by Austrian-born cartoonist Joseph Keppler and his partners as a German-language publication in 1876. Puck’s first English-language edition in 1877. The magazine name came from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: “What fools these mortals be!” Puck used lithography instead of wood engraving and offered three cartoons vs. one of competitors. The cartoons were initially printed in black and white, but soon it changed into full, eye-catching color. Within a few years, Judge supplanted Puck as the leading humor magazine.
Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.
Collection - Puck Magazine Covers
Puck was the first successful U.S. humor and colorful cartoons magazine, caricatures and political satire published from 1871 and 1918Collection - Chromolithographs
Chromolithograph is printed by multiple applications of lithographic stones, each using a different color ink.
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