Puck's Pyrotechnics. Fourth-ogf-July Fireworks Free to All.

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Good condition. Mended split at upper centerfold. Size 13 x 19 Inches. This spectacular and scarce Puck centerfold, drawn in 1882 by cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper (1857 - 1937). True to his best satirical form, Opper has packed this image with allusions to the year's events both in jest and in celebration. In the foreground from an electric-lit stage, the magazine's titular mascot (having set off the fireworks display, torch in hand) bows to a gaping and appreciative audience: one women offers up her baby for the pantsless Puck to kiss. Puck shares the stage with another torch-bearer: a statuesque hand with a guttering torch, alluding to end of the Madison Square tenure of the Statue of Liberty's arm. The stage is backed with a fanlight, decorated with the likenesses of William H. Vanderbilt, Russell Sage, Cyrus W. Field, and Jay Gould; these railroad barons and philanthropists were frequent butts for Puck's humor in general (and Opper's in particular) so it is equally possible that their position of 'honor' here alludes to their massive privilege, or an oblique 'thank you' from the magazine for providing so much of the year's material. Somewhat puzzlingly, all four likenesses appear on bags. Money bags? The Setting Behind the stage and beneath the fireworks display is a fanciful skyline: The Puck building is portrayed as a festively-lit Chinese pagoda. Thomas Edison's new Pearl Street generating station is shown - with a gigantic candle set upon it. (The station had just been established in 1882, and would not actually go live until September of that year.) Tammany Hall (one of Opper's favorite targets) appears as well - with a prominent padlock on its unlit door. The Fireworks Each of Puck's fireworks are named, and refer to recent scandals concerning the unnamed but well-known figures pictured within the blasts. Many of these revolve around the political machinations leading up to the 1880 Republican election of James Garfield, the fallout from his assassination, and widespread accusations of Republican corruption overall. Chicago Shower A fringe theory of the day was that the 1881 Chicago Fire had been started by a meteor shower: the shower of misfortune in this case being the fall in the 1880 Republican National Convention of the stalwarts (chiefly Ulysses S. Grant, Chester Arthur, Roscoe Conklin, John Logan, and James Donald Cameron, pictured here. The stalwarts, supporters of Grant, had been defeated by Garfield, Following his 1881 assassination of President Garfield, Charles Guiteau loudly declared himself a stalwart, thus obliquely implicating Garfield's former rivals. Tumbler Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York, in 1880 the presumptive Democratic candidate in 1880 presidential election - though he would fall from from favor, being beaten by Hancock - who would be in turn defeated by Garfield. Peruvian Pumper a.k.a. Garfield's Secretary of State, James Gillespie Blaine, accused of having ulterior financial motives in his support of Peru during his diplomatic efforts during the War of the Pacific. Star Route Staggerer Stephen W. Dorsey, Secretary of the Republican National Committee and implicatee in the 'The Star Route scandal,' a scheme whereby United States postal officials received bribes in exchange for awarding postal delivery contracts. The Beecher/Tilton Scandal A sex scandal! The Abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher is depicted as a great dragon - an allusion to his doomed fight against the Chinese Exclusion Act, which passed that year. He is overshadowed by 'Aurora', the suffragist Elizabeth Richards Tilton, whose adulterous relationship with Beecher twelve years prior still dogged the politician. Polar Rocket The flamboyant James Gordon Bennett is pictured, strapped to a 'Polar Rocket' - an allusion to his financial backing of the ill-starred 1879–1881 Jeannette expedition to the Arctic, whose tragic denouement had just unfolded. Tammany Falling Star at top center witness 'Honest' John Kelly, a boss of Tamma.…

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Titre
Puck's Pyrotechnics. Fourth-ogf-July Fireworks Free to All.
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1882 Opper Satirical Cartoon Lampooning Gilded Age Republican Corruption
Année de publication
1882
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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.…

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