Catfish, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 3/4 × 1 7/16 in. (7 × 3.6 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
63.350.204.74.35
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th American advertising with *Catfish, from the series Fishers and Fish (74)*, a charming commercial color lithograph produced in 1888 by W. Duke, Sons & Co in collaboration with Knapp & Company. This petite card, measuring just 2 3/4 × 1 7/16 inches, was designed as promotional ephemera for Duke brand cigarettes, of a popular series featuring women engaged in fishing alongside their catches. Tucked away in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it hails from The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection. Chromolithography, the medium here, rev...
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...