This is an inside page from Puck magazine ca. 1884. It is an original full page
lithograph, not a reproduction. The title is "LEAP-YEAR LICENSE.". It depicts
Ben Butler as a woman chasing the republicans, democrats, independents, and
the greenbackers. The caption reads Widow Butler: - "I'm going to offer myself
to all of them, one after another.". There are women looking for the president,
Chester A. Arthur, who is hiding. The illustrator is F. Opper.
Frederick Burr Opper 1857–1937, American cartoonist and illustrator,
born in
Madison, Ohio. He began as a contributor to comic papers and was associated
with Frank Leslie's publications for three years, with Puck for 18 years, and with
the New York Journal. His work is characterized by extreme simplicity, vigor,
and humor. He illustrated the works of Mark Twain, Bill Nye, Eugene Field, and
Finley P. Dunne and wrote and illustrated Happy Hooligan (1902), Our Antediluvian
Ancestors (1902), Alphonse and Gaston (1902), and John Bull (1903). |
