The Young Swell, anthropomorphic dog lithograph advertising champagne and tobacco – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Young Swell, anthropomorphic dog lithograph advertising champagne and tobacco. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
The Young Swell, anthropomorphic dog lithograph advertising champagne and tobacco
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A dog dressed in the clothes of a fashionable young man, complete with cane and cigar, gives this lithograph its character. "Swell" was 19th-century slang for a dandy or man about town, and the joke works because the figure behaves like one. Advertisers used lithography to produce bright, inexpensive color prints, and animals acting as people were a popular device for selling wine and tobacco. The print shows how commercial imagery borrowed the manners of leisured men to make a product seem stylish.
| Original scan | 1,861 × 3,510 px · prints to 6 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8 |
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