Fuchsia: Taste, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes 1892

"Fuchsia: Taste" is a trade card from the "Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers" series created by the American Tobacco Company in 1892. The card depicts a young woman with a delicate, romantic air against a background of vibrant fuchsia blossoms. This chromolithographic print, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exemplifies the popular Victorian-era fascination with flowers and their symbolic meanings, reflecting a time when tobacco was marketed as a luxurious and refined product.