Marigold: Disdain, 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
63.350.204.75.9
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 1890s advertising with *Marigold: Dis*, a petite chromolithograph from the *Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers* (N75), produced by the Donaldson Brothers for the American Tobacco Company's Duke cigarettes. Created in 1892, this tiny card—measuring just 2¾ × 1½ inches—was designed as collectible ephemera, into cigarette packs to entice smokers and spark a collecting craze among Victorians. Its delicate imagery blends a graceful female figure with marigold blooms, embodying the flower’s symbolic "disdain" in the era’s floriography, where plants whispered emoti...
About the Artist
Donaldson Brothers|American Tobacco Company (American| ) · 1850 | –1870 |
American, New York|