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Estelle Clayton in Colors of the Isle of Purbeck Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

W. Duke, Sons & Co.

1890

Estelle Clayton in Colors of the Isle of Purbeck Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

Medium

Commercial color lithograph

Dimensions

Sheet: 4 in. × 2 1/2 in. (10.1 × 6.3 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

63.350.207.140.56

Tags

PortraitsWomenFlags

About the Artist

W. Duke, Sons & Co. · 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...

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