Lilly Claus in Colors of Royal Squadron 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
63.350.207.140.59
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 1890s tobacco advertising with *Lilly Claus in Colors Royal Squadron Yacht Club*, gem from the *Yacht of the World* seriesN140). Produced by W. Duke, & Co. to promote their Honest Long Cut Tobacco, this commercial color lithograph measures just 4 × 2½ inches, perfect as a collectible insert in cigarette packages. It captures a poised portrait of a woman, Lilly Claus, adorned in the distinctive flags and colors of the prestigious Squadron Yacht Club, ev the glamour of elite maritime leisure. Chromolithography, the era's breakthrough printing technique, shines her...
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...