1900 The Aguinlado Guard Puck Illustration

Copyright 1900, J. Ottoman lith co. Puck Bldg Ny. marked Puck on upper margin and lower reads The Aguinaldo Guard. Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan standing in the stirrups of his mount, a donkey labeled Democracy, directing the honor guard led by Adlai Stevenson, and including Henry R. Towne, Joseph Pulitzer, and Carl Schurz carrying a large flag with a portrait of Emilio Aguinaldo under the heading The George Washington of the Philippines. Also included are Oswald Ottendorfer, Edwin L. Godkin, Bourke Cockran, John Altgeld, and William Sulzer. (Loc.gov) Framed in a finished red toned wood grain frame with off white mat board. Approx 20 x 27.5 inches window measures 12 x19 inches.Minor wearing to frame and crease to center of paper Antique magazine illustration, magazine illustration, silk screen illustration, antique ephemera, home decor, wall art, art, silk screen art, print making art, Puck illustration, political art, political illustration. Political ephemera, 12 Art wallPuck was the first successful humor magazine in the United States of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was founded in 1876 as a German-language publication by Joseph Keppler, an Austrian immigrant cartoonist.