Hand mirror with woman in feathered collar, from the Novelties series (N122) issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco to promote Navy Long Cut
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/8 × 2 1/4 in. (10.4 × 5.7 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
63.350.206.122.25
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th advertising with this charming *Hand mirror with woman in feathered collar a commercial color lithograph from theelties series (N), issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco in 1889 promote their Navy Long Cut tobacco. Measuring just 4 1/8 × 2 1/4 inches, this petite print was likely a collectible trade card tucked into cigarette packages, enticing smokers with its depiction of a fashionable woman gazing into a hand mirror, her feathered collar evoking the opulent styles of the Gilded Age. Chromolithography, the medium here, revolutionized mass-produced color printing, a...