Minnie Dupree in Colors of Royal Irish 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
63.350.207.140.39
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 1890s advertising with *Minnie Dupree in of Royal Irish Yacht Club*, a charming commercial color lithograph from W. Duke, Sons & Co.'s *Yacht Colors of the* series (N140). Produced to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco, this card (just 4 × 2½ inches) features a portrait of Minnie Dupree adorned in the distinctive flag colors of the prestigious Royal Irish Yacht Club. Tobacco companies like Duke's pioneered collectible series like this, enticing smokers with beautifully illustrated ephemera that celebrated elite pastimes such as yachting. These cards exemplify the g...
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...