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No chance to criticize / Dalrymple., Political Cartoon

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Print shows Uncle Sam wearing a military uniform and holding a sword labeled "U.S.", sitting at a table on which is a small cake on a platter labeled "Cuba", with a decanter labeled "Philippine Islands" on the table and a bottle labeled "Porto Rico" [i.e. Puerto Rico] in an ice bucket. On the left, John Bull is holding a sword labeled "England", slicing a large cake on a platter labeled "China"; around the table, with him, are four figures representing "Russia" (Nicholas II), "France" (Felix Faure), "Germany" (William II), and "Japan" (Meiji), each using a sword to carve up the cake which is labeled "Wei-Hai-Wei, Coal Fields of Shan-Si, Ta-Lien-Wan, Port Arthur, Hainan, Kai Chau, [and] Formosa". Looking on from behind a wall on the far left are Italy (Umberto I) and Austria (Franz Joseph I).

Caption: John Bull (to the Powers) What are you mad about? We can't grudge him a light lunch while we are feasting!
Illus. from Puck, v. 43, no. 1107, (1898 May 25), centerfold.
Copyright 1898 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.

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.

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1904 - 1905
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Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905, artist
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Library of Congress
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