G.S. Davis, New York, from the Sports Celebrities series (N142) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

G.S. Davis, New York, from the Sports Celebrities series (N142) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

W. Duke, Sons & Co.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Large cabinet card from the "Sports Celebrities" series (N142), issued in a set of seven cards in 1894 by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. The rare set contains four portraits of baseball players and three portraits of cyclists.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

G.S. Davis, New York, from the Sports Celebrities series (N142) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoG.S. Davis, New York, from the Sports Celebrities series (N142) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoG.S. Davis, New York, from the Sports Celebrities series (N142) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoG.S. Davis, New York, from the Sports Celebrities series (N142) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut TobaccoG.S. Davis, New York, from the Sports Celebrities series (N142) issued by W. 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.