Nero dog head cigar label with hunting scene – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Nero dog head cigar label with hunting scene brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Nero dog head cigar label with hunting scene
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A cigar label with a dog's head at its center, the design named "Nero," which is the Italian word for black. Labels like this were pasted onto cigar boxes and bundles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when lithographic printing made bright, detailed paper ephemera cheap to produce. Brand owners used animals, sporting scenes and exotic or aspirational imagery to set their products apart on crowded tobacco shelves, and hunting motifs suggested leisure and refinement to the men who smoked them. The hunting scene worked as a small story in the margins, making the dog the hero of an otherwise ordinary consumer object. Look closely at the lettering and color layers, which show how much handwork went into multi-stone chromolithography.
| Original scan | 994 × 600 px |
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| Reference | Dog7 |
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