Jack Rose: Bashful Love, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes
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
63.350.204.75.42
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th American advertising with *Jack Rose: Bashful*, a charming commercial color lithograph from the *Floral Beauties and Language of* series (N75), produced in 1892 by the Donaldson Brothers for the American Tobacco Company's Duke brand cigarettes. This petite card, measuring just 2 3/4 × 1 1/2 inches, was designed as an insert for cigarette packs, transforming everyday tobacco purchases into collectible treasures. Featuring motifs of women and flowers, it captures the Victorian fascination with floriography—the "language of flowers"—where the jack rose symboliz...
About the Artist
Donaldson Brothers|American Tobacco Company (American| ) · 1850 | –1870 |
American, New York|