Brilliant and historical 1895 Statue of Liberty Cartoon, skewering advertising culture
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This cartoon is about the effort to raise funds to build the 89-foot high pedestal necessary to mount France’s gift of the Statue of Liberty, published a year-and-a-half before the Statue was dedicated. Extremely historical and insightful, reflecting that the fundraising effort was not an easy one, even though the statue soon became one of the country’s greatest iconic symbols.
Puck, a satirical humor magazine, devoted one of the four coveted chromolithograph pages in the issue to Frederick Opper’s (Happy Hooligan) satirical solution to raise money through advertising. The Puck office can be seen in the background, and Liberty holds a magnum of champagne labeled, “Katzenjammer” — a joke in itself, since this was German slang for “hangover” (and was later used as the title for the famous comic strip, The Katzenjammer Kids).
The cartoon brilliantly foreshadows a land drenched in — and reduced by — the forces of advertising. It is interesting to see the shades on Liberty’s eyes.
As with all scans on this site, the image shown is low-resolution. The scan you will receive is sharp and clear, and unrestored.
Artist: Frederick Opper
Source: Puck magazine, April 1, 1885
Resolution: 600 dpi
Dimensions: 5640 × 7957 pixels
Format: .tif
File Size: 128 MB
Brilliant and historical 1895 Statue of Liberty Cartoon, skewering advertising culture
Digital download — available instantly upon purchase
This cartoon is about the effort to raise funds to build the 89-foot high pedestal necessary to mount France’s gift of the Statue of Liberty, published a year-and-a-half before the Statue was dedicated. Extremely historical and insightful, reflecting that the fundraising effort was not an easy one, even though the statue soon became one of the country’s greatest iconic symbols.
Puck, a satirical humor magazine, devoted one of the four coveted chromolithograph pages in the issue to Frederick Opper’s (Happy Hooligan) satirical solution to raise money through advertising. The Puck office can be seen in the background, and Liberty holds a magnum of champagne labeled, “Katzenjammer” — a joke in itself, since this was German slang for “hangover” (and was later used as the title for the famous comic strip, The Katzenjammer Kids).
The cartoon brilliantly foreshadows a land drenched in — and reduced by — the forces of advertising. It is interesting to see the shades on Liberty’s eyes.
As with all scans on this site, the image shown is low-resolution. The scan you will receive is sharp and clear, and unrestored.
Artist: Frederick Opper
Source: Puck magazine, April 1, 1885
Resolution: 600 dpi
Dimensions: 5640 × 7957 pixels
Format: .tif
File Size: 128 MB