Wild Rose: Poetry, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand 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
63.350.204.75.41
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century advertising with *Wild Rose: Poetry*, a petite chromolithograph from the 1892 *Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers* seriesN75), produced by the Donaldson Brothers for the American Tobacco Company's Duke brand cigarettes. Measuring just 2¾ × 1½ inches, this delicate print was designed as an insert for cigarette packs, enticing collectors with its charming depiction of women and flowers—likely a graceful figure amid blooming wild roses, evoking Victorian language of flowers where the wild rose symbolized poetry and fleeting beauty. Chromolithograp...
About the Artist
Donaldson Brothers|American Tobacco Company (American| ) · 1850 | –1870 |
American, New York|