Helena Dacre in Colors of the Eastern Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
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
63.350.207.140.23
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 1890s advertising with *Helena Dacre in of the Eastern Yacht Club*, a charming commercial color lithograph from W. Duke, Sons & Co.'s *Yacht Colors of the* series (N140). Issued to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco, petite print—measuring just 4 × 2½ inches—was likely tucked into cigarette packages as a collectible insert, sparking a craze among enthusiasts for its vivid depictions of international yacht club burgees and flags. The elegant profile of a woman, paired with the Eastern Yacht Club's distinctive colors, evokes the glamour of Gilded Age yachting, an elit...
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...