Does your mother know you're out? – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Does your mother know you're out?, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Does your mother know you're out?" is the playful title on this c1861 color lithograph, which pairs its wording with a scene of birds and farm life. It was printed in Boston by Meisel Bros. for Fisher & Co., a tobacco maker that used eye-catching labels like this to set its packages apart on crowded shop shelves. Lithography made bright color printing affordable in this period, so tobacco makers often commissioned humorous or sentimental scenes that drew buyers' attention. Today these small labels survive mainly in collections, where they show how commercial art of the 1860s blended storytelling with advertising.
| Created / published | c1861. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Tobacco package labels 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | LOT subdivision subject: Birds and amphibians. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Copyright by Fisher & Co. Meisel Bros. Lith., Boston. Caption card tracings: Buble, OT [?]; Tobacco -- Avert; Birds; Farms & Farming; PI (2); Fictional Characters; Amazons; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 800 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118360 |
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