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Caricature:Roscoe Conkling as Mephistopheles
Centerfold of Puck 3 October 1877
Drawn by Joseph Keppler
Caption: Conkling as Mephistopheles
Unto that Power he doth belong
Which only doeth Right while ever willing Wrong. – Goethe's Faust.
The other figures in the picture are Rutherford B. Hayes and a woman labeled as "Solid South". The cartoon is about the Compromise of 1877
12"w x 18"h
Source

http://www.greatcaricatures.com/keppler/1877_1003_mephistopheles.shtml
Date

3 October 1877
Author

Joseph Keppler
Permission
(Reusing this image)

Keppler died 1894, so this is firmly in the public domain

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