Accession number
PML 198739.23
Published
New York, N.Y. : Straiton & Storm., [188-?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes
Title from item.
Advertising trade card distributed by R.C. Brown & Co. for cigar manufacturer Straiton & Storm's new line of cigars, including "Aesthetic," "Sun-flower," "Too Too," "Capadura," and "Patience."
Blank on verso.
The Library also owns a "blank" or template copy of this trade card, lacking advertising text (see MA 23777.3).
Advertising trade card distributed by R.C. Brown & Co. for cigar manufacturer Straiton & Storm's new line of cigars, including "Aesthetic," "Sun-flower," "Too Too," "Capadura," and "Patience."
Blank on verso.
The Library also owns a "blank" or template copy of this trade card, lacking advertising text (see MA 23777.3).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; 104 x 170 mm
Summary
Card shows the full-legth figure of Oscar Wilde, reproduced from an 1882 portrait by photographer Napoleon Sarony, standing in front of a curtain decorated with sunflowers next to a "Japonaiserie" podium with a bouquet of containing a calla lily and a sunflower.
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