Dan Brouthers, 1st Base, Detroit, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

Dan Brouthers, 1st Base, Detroit, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

Goodwin & Company

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Goodwin Champions series of trading cards (N162), was issued by Goodwin & Company in 1888 to promote Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes. The series of 50 cards depicts athletes in various disciplines. The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns all 50 cards from the series.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dan Brouthers, 1st Base, Detroit, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen CigarettesDan Brouthers, 1st Base, Detroit, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen CigarettesDan Brouthers, 1st Base, Detroit, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen CigarettesDan Brouthers, 1st Base, Detroit, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen CigarettesDan Brouthers, 1st Base, Detroit, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.