Woman wearing hat with 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, N228.38
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th-century advertising with *Woman wearing hat with ribbons*, a charming chromolithograph from Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company's Novelties series (N228, Type 2), in 1889. This petite, round print—measuring just 1 9/16 inches in diameter—captures a woman adorned in an elaborate hat festooned with ribbons, her poised elegance evoking the fashionable femininity of the Gilded Age. As a commercial color lithograph, it showcases the era's mastery of chromolithography, a technique that allowed for vivid, mass-produced hues on paper, making luxury imagery accessible to...
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...