An awful day of reckoning at hand for John Bull - Ireland's dream of an irresistible anti-English alliance / Keppler.
Summary
Print shows Puck's stereotyped Irish man labeled "Ireland" as a military general sitting on a rocking horse labeled "Home Rule", holding papers that state "Muster-Roll of the Anti-English Army", and addressing a ragged group of soldiers labeled "Germany, Russia, Venezuela, Japan, Transvaal, [and] Ashantee", Uncle Sam is standing among them; John Bull, in a state of shock, is standing on a small island just offshore. On the ground next to the rocking horse is a box labeled "Servant Girls Home Rule Contributions".
Caption: General Commanding Attintion, company! - will yez all foight the tyrant England? / Troops (in thunder tones) We will!!!
Illus. from Puck, v. 38, no. 988, (1896 February 12), centerfold.
Copyright 1896 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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