The skeleton at the feast / J.S. Pughe.
Summary
Print shows several Republican politicians wearing Roman togas, seated around a banquet table with a skeleton that is holding a standard labeled "McKinley's Shaky Financial Record"; gathered around the table are: John "Sherman", Stephen B. "Elkins", Russell A. "Alger", Charles H. "Grosvenor", William "McKinley", Mark A. "Hanna", Christopher L. "Magee", William M. "Hahn", Joseph B. "Foraker", Cornelius N. "Bliss", Herman H. "Kohlsaat", Edward O. "Wolcott", and Whitelaw "Reid".
Caption: The ancient custom of the Romans of seating a skeleton at their banquet-tables, to remind them of death, is now being revived by our Republican friends.
Illus. from Puck, v. 39, no. 1005, (1896 June 10), 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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