Research Catalog

Title

Prints depicting tobacco cultivation, processing and trade [graphic].

Publication

[172?-188-]

Details

Additional Authors

• Hunt, H. W.
• Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912.
• Laurie & Whittle. pbl
• Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Prt. Co. pbl

Description

<44> prints : aquatint, engraving, lithograph, some col.; 41 x 52 cm. or smaller

Summary

Prints depicting tobacco cultivation (sowing, hilling, transplanting, tilling, layering and topping, worming, drying, and preparing for market); tobacco processing (hand and machine processing and production of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, factory buildings, men rolling cigars, women rolling cigarettes and using a library in the factory); tobacco trade (tobacco auctions, including an African American playing a long horn, references to the South Sea Bubble and tobacco monopolies); a mass for women tobacco workers in Spain; a sheet of 15 images that may be examples of labels, some depicting smoking. Someimages depict Indians holding tobacco.

Uniform Title

• Encyclopédie.
• Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques.

Subjects

• Wood-engraving
• Prints > French
• Prints > Dutch
• Prints > American
• Africans
• African Americans
• Auctions > Virginia
• Barns
• Cigar industry
• Cigarette industry > Virginia
• Cigarette industry > Spain
• Contests
• Indians of North America
• Libraries > Virginia
• Machinery
• Monopolies > Netherlands
• Musicians
• Plowing
• Smoking in art
• Smuggling
• Snuff
• South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720
• Sowing
• Streets > New York (State) > New York
• Streets > Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
• Tobacco in art
• Tobacco curing
• Tobacco farmers > Barbados
• Tobacco farms
• Tobacco > Harvesting
• Tobacco package labels
• Tobacco pipes
• Tobacco plantations > United States
• Tobacco > Diseases and pests
• Tobacco > Storage
• Wagons
• Warehouses
• Women > Employement
• Women > Tobacco use
• Advertisements
• Aquatints
• Engravings
• Etchings
• Lithographs

Genre/Form

• Advertisements.
• Aquatints.
• Engravings.
• Etchings.
• Lithographs.
• Prints – American.
• Prints – Dutch.
• Prints – French.
• Wood-engraving.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Titles and legends in English, Dutch and French.
• Includes prints made or published by: W.L. Sheppard, H.W. Hunt, Robert Laurie and James Whittle, and Sackett and Wilhelm.
• Includes plates issued to accompany Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers, edited by Diderot and D'Alembert. Plates published under title: Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques. Paris, 1762-1772.
• Plate marks, when present, range in size from 10 x 13 cm. to 41 x 52 cm.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Arents Prints 96-347

OCLC

NYPG96-F165

Title

Prints depicting tobacco cultivation, processing and trade [graphic].

Imprint

[172?-188-]

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Arents Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

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Local Subject

Streets -- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Added Author

Hunt, H. W. Publisher

Sheppard, William Ludwell, 1833-1912. Engraver

Laurie & Whittle. Publisher

Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Prt. Co. Publisher

Added Title

Encyclopédie.

Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques.

Research Call Number

Arents Prints 96-347