Actress wearing pink hat with blue feathers, from Stars of the Stage, First Series (N129) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 3/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10.6 × 6.4 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
Accession Number
63.350.206.129.27
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the glittering world of 1890s theater with this charming commercial color lithograph, *Actress wearing pink hat with feathers*, from the * of the Stage, First (N129)*. Produced by W. Duke, & Co.—a leading American tobacco firm—and printed by Knapp & Company, this petite card (just 4 3/16 × 2 1/2 inches) captures a stylish actress in vibrant pink attire adorned with striking blue feathers. Issued to promote "Honest Long Cut Tobacco it exemplifies the era's trade card craze, where collectible inserts turned everyday cigarette packs into treasure troves for enthusiasts. Chromolithograp...
About the Artist
W. Duke, Sons & Co.|Knapp & Company · 1870–1920
**W. Duke, Sons & Co.: Pioneers of Chromolithographic Trade Card Art** W. Duke, Sons & Co., an American tobacco manufacturer, emerged from the entrepreneurial vision of Washington Duke (1820–1905) and his sons in Durham, North Carolina. After the Civil War, Washington abandoned farming in 1874 to join his eldest son, Brodie L. Duke, in the burgeoning tobacco trade, establishing a factory that for...