Piano and Organ, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

Piano and Organ, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

W. Duke, Sons & Co.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Trade cards from the "Musical Instruments" series (N121), issued in an unnumbered set of 25 cards in 1888 by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. The series incorporates the 50 images of the N82 set, including two images on each card.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Piano and Organ, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoPiano and Organ, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoPiano and Organ, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoPiano and Organ, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoPiano and Organ, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

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.