Miss Atkinson in Colors of Glenelg 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
63.350.207.140.51
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the late 19th century, American tobacco companies like W., Sons & Co. revolutionized with vibrant collectible cards inserted into cigarette packs. This charming 1890 commercial color lithograph, *Miss Atkinson in Colors of Glenelg Yacht Club*, is one such gem from the *Yacht Colors of the World* series (N140), promoting "Honest Long Cut Tobacco." Measuring just 4 by 2½ inches, it depicts a poised woman in the club's distinctive flag-inspired attire, blending portraiture with nautical pride amid the era's yachting craze among the elite. Chromolithography, the medium here, allowed for vivid,...
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...