Roseate Spoonbill, from the Game Birds series (N40) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Unknown Artist
Trade cards from the "Game Birds" series (N40), issued in 1888-90 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Series N40 reproduces the cards from N13 in a larger size.
Credit: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick
1888-90
Commercial color lithograph
7.3 x 8.3cm
63.350.202.40.40
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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