Mary Anderson in Colors of New Brunswick 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
63.350.207.140.9
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century advertising with *Mary Anderson in Colors of New Brunswick Yacht Club*, a charming commercial color lithograph from the *Yacht Colors of the World* series (N140). Produced in 1890 by W. Duke, Sons & Co., this pocket-sized print (4 × 2½ inches) was issued to promote their Honest Long Cut Tobacco. Likely depicting the yacht *Mary Anderson* adorned in the distinctive colors of the New Brunswick Yacht Club, it captures the era's fascination with nautical leisure and global yachting culture. Chromolithography, the medium here, was a breakthrough techniqu...
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...