Related
Carbineer [sic], France, 1853 Cigarette Card
Infantry, France, 1853 Cigarette Card
Col. of infantry, France, 1853 Cigarette Card
Sapper, France, 1853 Cigarette Card
Fireman, France, 1853 Cigarette Card
Gendarme, France, 1853 Cigarette Card
French armored auto. aircraft guns
Dog smoking, 11923 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.
Drum major, France, 1853 Cigarette Card
Horse artillery, France, 1853 Cigarette Card
Summary
Print shows a French horse artillery soldier in 1853, wearing uniform and holding sword, with a cannon ball at his feet, on cigarette card issued by Kinney Tobacco Company as an insert with the Sweet Caporal brand cigarettes.
At head of title: Illust'd Sweet Caporal.
Illus. in souvenir album inscribed "Alton B. Cusick, Feb. 7, 1895, Albany, N.Y.", p. 23.
Alois Senefelder, the inventor of lithography, introduced the subject of colored lithography in 1818. Printers in other countries, such as France and England, were also started producing color prints. The first American chromolithograph—a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood—was created by William Sharp in 1840. Chromolithographs became so popular in American culture that the era has been labeled as "chromo civilization". During the Victorian times, chromolithographs populated children's and fine arts publications, as well as advertising art, in trade cards, labels, and posters. They were also used for advertisements, popular prints, and medical or scientific books.