Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, from the Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans series (N188) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (7 × 3.8 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
63.350.216.188.14
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Aurora, Goddess of Dawn*, a delicate chromolithograph from the 9 "Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans" series (N188), produced by the Ketterlinus Lithography Company for William S. Kimball & Company, a prominent tobacco firm. Measuring just 2¾ × 1½ inches, this tiny print was designed as ephemera—likely a collectible insert for cigarette packs—capturing the ethereal beauty of Aurora, the Roman goddess of dawn (known as Eos to the Greeks), personifying the rosy-fingered light of morning. Chromolithography, a revolutionary color printing technique of the era, allowed for vibrant, mass-pr...
About the Artist
Ketterlinus Lithography Company|William S. Kimball & Company ( |American) · |1850 – |1950
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania