Spanish, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet (Folded): 2 11/16 × 1 7/16 in. (6.8 × 3.7 cm) Sheet (Unfolded): 6 7/8 × 1 7/16 in. (17.4 × 3.7 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, N240.62
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th advertising with *Spanish, from Types of NationalitiesN240)*, a commercial color lithograph produced by the Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company 1890. This card, measuring just 2 11/16 × 1 7/16 inches when folded for packaging, unfolds to 6 7/8 × 1 7/16 inches, was tucked into cigarette packs as a collectible incentive. Part of a series capturing "types" of nationalities, it likely portrays a stereotypical Spanish man, reflecting the era's fascination with ethnic diversity through simplified, exoticized imagery tagged simply as "Men." Chromolithography, the medi...
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...