Officer, 11th Royal Hussars, Great Britain, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal 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
Burdick 218, N224.463
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th advertising with *Officer, 11th Royal Huss, Great Britain*, a gem from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Jefferson R. Burdick Collection Produced in 1888 by the Kinney Tobacco Company, this petite commercial color lithograph ( 2¾ × 1½ inches) captures the proud profile of a British cavalry officer from the elite 11th Royal Huss. Part of the Military Series (N224), was issued as a collectible premium with Sweet Caporal Cigarettes enticing smokers with glamorous military imagery. Chromolithography, the era's breakthrough technique for affordable, vivid color p...
About the Artist
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company · 1869–2011
**Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company (1869–2011)** Founded around 1869 by Francis Sherwood Kinney in New York City, the Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company quickly rose to prominence in the burgeoning American cigarette industry. Francis, a pioneering tobacco manufacturer, experimented with hand-rolled cigarettes using blends of Turkish and Virginia tobacco, scaling to mass production by employing Europ...