IMAGE
Sackett & Willhelms Litho Company :Captain Cook. Sackett & Willhelms Litho Co., N.Y. [Tobacco plug box label. 1890s?]
- Date
- 1889 - 1900
- By
- Sackett & Wilhelms Company
- Reference
- Eph-C-PEOPLE-Cook-1890s-01
- Description
Label purportedly from a tobacco plug box shows a central vertical oval portrait of Captain Cook, derived from the Nathaniel Holland portrait, showing Cook seated with a map on his lap, but also with dividers in his right hand. Outside of this oval centrepiece are four scenes from the Pacific: at top left a variation (probably from Webber) of the death of Captain Cook, at top right a sailing ship beside a headland; at lower left a sailing ship in mid-ocean, and at lower right a native couple and child.
The use of Cook on a tobacco label is in some ways appropriate in that tobacco was introduced to New Zealand during Cook's voyages.
Dating based on internet information that Sackett & Wilhelms used that name from 1889 onwards (previously Sackett, Wilhelms & Betzig).
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 304 x 304 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Ephemera, Chromolithographs, Portraits, Labels, Chromolithograph, 304 x 304 mm., Orientation: Square image
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