Botanical prints and drawings depicting tobacco

Collection History

This digital presentation offers a glimpse of the tobacco-related visual resources held by the George Arents Collection on Tobacco; it is inspired by a 1997-1998 exhibition, Tobacco Leaves: Selections from the Collection of George Arents, Jr., organized by Virginia Bartow, Curator of the George Arents Collection.

Background

The George Arents Collection on Tobacco, the product of over one hundred years of collecting by George Arents and a succession of curators, is a comprehensive collection on the history, literature, and lore of tobacco. Over the years, the collection has grown to include books and manuscripts in more than twenty languages. Although the collection is devoted to tobacco and includes almost every important work dealing with the subject, it also contains many historical, literary, and artistic works in which tobacco appears only incidentally, such as the "Lilliputian" prints in this presentation.

Related Resources

Fletcher, H. George. "Indomitable Collector: George Arents, Jr. and The New York Public Library" Biblion: The Bulletin of The New York Public Library 9, no.1/2 (Fall 2000/Spring 2001) p.87-103

NYPL. "Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-century Europe" (c1997). Organized by Elizabeth Wyckoff, Print Collection. <http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm>

Collection Data

Description
Depictions of tobacco; print includes image of a tobacco worm.
Names
Cattarini, Balthasar (Artist)
Prévost, Jean Louis, ca. 1760-ca. 1810 (Artist)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1800 - 1899 (Approximate)
Library locations
George Arents Collection
Shelf locator: Arents Drawings 96-349
Topics
Tobacco
Tobacco -- Diseases and pests
Genres
Illustrations
Botanical illustrations
Drawings
Prints
Notes
Language: Titles and legends in Latin, English and French.
Content: Title devised by cataloger.
Physical Description
Extent: 2 drawings ; watercolor, col. ; 54 x 38 cm. or smaller. 1 print ; engraving, col. ; 21 x 13 cm.
Print trimmed to plate marks.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG96-F175
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12861972
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 375ce0d0-c607-012f-d8b3-58d385a7bc34
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