Isabel Irving, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies Cigarettes

Isabel Irving, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies Cigarettes

Frederick Moladore Spiegle

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Trade cards from the "Actresses" series (T1), published in 1900 by the American Tobacco Company to promote Turkish Trophy Cigarettes. Twenty-five card set reproduced from original paintings by artist F.M. Spiegle.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Isabel Irving, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies CigarettesIsabel Irving, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies CigarettesIsabel Irving, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies CigarettesIsabel Irving, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies CigarettesIsabel Irving, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies 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.