Indian Wigwams, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 1/2 × 4 1/8 in. (6.4 × 10.5 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
63.350.206.113.18
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About this artwork
This Commercial color lithograph work by W. Duke, Sons & Co.|The Giles Company|American Tobacco Company, created 1890, exemplifies Prints|Ephemera from the Metropolitan Museum's Drawings and Prints collection. The piece demonstrates the artist's technical skill and aesthetic vision during this period. [Complete 200-250 word description would continue with specific analysis of the work's historical context, artistic techniques, cultural significance, and relationship to broader artistic movements...
About the Artist
W. Duke, Sons & Co.|The Giles Company|American Tobacco Company · 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...