Colonel A. A. Pope, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
1888
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (7 x 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
63.350.202.25.34
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century advertising with this petite commercial color lithograph, a printer's sample titled *Colonel A. A. Pope* from Allen & Ginter's *'s Inventors* souvenir album (A25), created in 1888. just 2¾ x 1½ inches, this portrait captures the dignified likeness of Colonel Albert A. Pope, a prominent American industrialist, against a simple backdrop. Produced by the innovative tobacco firm Allen & Ginter, it was designed as part of collectible series inserted into cigarette packs to entice smokers and foster a budding hobby of trading cards. Allen & Ginter pioneer...
About the Artist
Allen & Ginter
Allen & Ginter, the pioneering American tobacco firm based in Richmond, Virginia, emerged around 1880 from the partnership of John F. Allen and Lewis Ginter, evolving from Allen's earlier John F. Allen & Company. Allen retired in 1882, succeeded by John Pope, yet the brand endured under Ginter's leadership, employing over 1,100 workers—mostly women—for hand-rolled cigarettes by 1886. Ginter, a Dut...