Research Catalog

Title

American prints depicting smoking and related subjects [graphic]

Publication

1837-1885.

Details

Additional Authors

• Hayward, Geo. (George), active 1834-1872.
• Robinson, Henry R.
• Unger, William.
• A. Hoen & Co. ltg
• E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. ltg
• Sarony & Major. ltg

Description

9 prints : etching, engraving, lithograph; 29 x 45 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Prints include advertisements, portraits, illustrations and sentimental subjects, and depict a sailor on a pier; a woman and a lighthouse; street scenes in New York, including women (presumably prostitutes) smoking and a cigar store; a satire on smoking showing busy street scene including Afro-Americans, with women holding their noses against the smoke; satire showing Martin Van Buren and a farmer looking at sow with piglets labelled after various political patrons; a bachelor in reverie in front of his hearth; a boy sneaking a sip of a sleeping man's drink; portrait of the artist Frank Duveneck.

Subjects

• Women
• Portraits
• Prints > American > 1800-1899
• Lithographs
• Etchings
• Caricatures
• Advertisements
• Women > Tobacco use
• Tobacco pipes
• Tobacco shops > New York > New York
• Tobacco chewing
• Swine
• Streets > New York (State) > New York
• Smoking
• Sleep
• Sailors
• Piers
• Prostitutes
• Patronage, Political > United States
• Lighthouses
• Interiors
• Farmers > New York (State)
• Eating & drinking
• Cigars
• Children and adults
• Banks and banking
• Bachelors
• Artists > United States
• African Americans
• Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862
• Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919 > Portrait

Genre/Form

• Advertisements.
• Caricatures.
• Etchings.
• Lithographs.
• Prints – American – 1800-1899.
• Portraits.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Includes prints by A. Hoen & Co., E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, G. Hayward, Hery R. Robinson, Sarony and Major and William Unger, after artists including Edward William Clay and William Merritt Chase.
• Advertisements were published for P.H. Mayo and Brother of Richmond, Virginia. Street scenes in New York include Point Isabel and Five Corners and were published in Valentine's Manual (i.e.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Detailed finding aid available.

Call Number

Arents 95-681

OCLC

NYPG96-F38

Title

American prints depicting smoking and related subjects [graphic]

Imprint

1837-1885.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Arents Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexes

Detailed finding aid available.

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Added Author

Hayward, Geo. (George), active 1834-1872. Lithographer

Robinson, Henry R. Lithographer

Unger, William. Etcher

A. Hoen & Co. Lithographer

E.B. & E.C. Kellogg. Lithographer

Sarony & Major. Lithographer

Research Call Number

Arents 95-681