Woman wearing blue hat with pink ribbons, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.
Medium
Commercial color lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet (Round): 1 9/16 × 1 9/16 in. (4 × 4 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, N228.48
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of late 19th-century advertising with *Woman wearing blue hat with pink ribbons*, a delightful gem from Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company's Novelties series (N, Type 2), produced in 1889. This petite, round commercial color lithograph—me just 1 9/16 inches across—captures a stylish female profile adorned with a striking blue hat tied in playful pink ribbons. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department as part of the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, it exemplifies ephemera: those everyday printed treasures that once enlivened cigarette pac...
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...