Highland Fling, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (7 × 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
Burdick 218, N225.109
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century advertising with *Highland Fling*, charming chromolithograph from the Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company's *National Dances* seriesN225, Type 2), issued in 1889. This petite print, measuring just 2¾ × 1½ inches, captures a graceful female dancer mid-leap in the energetic Scottish Highland Fling, her tartan skirt swirling dynamically. Part of a popular set of collectible cards inserted into cigarette packs, it reflects the era's marketing ingenuity, where tobacco firms like Kinney Bros. lured smokers—and young collectors—with colorful depictions of globa...
About the Artist
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1869–2011
**Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company (1869–2011)** Founded around 1869 by Francis Sherwood Kinney in New York City, the Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company quickly rose to prominence in the burgeoning American cigarette industry. Francis, a pioneering tobacco manufacturer, experimented with hand-rolled cigarettes using blends of Turkish and Virginia tobacco, scaling to mass production by employing Europ...