#Liebig Cards

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

MALTA / MALTE - trade card by Liebig Co.

#Malta #Malte #litografia #litho #kartka #post card #pocztówka #Liebig #trade #art trade #reklama #product

[shredsandpatches]

The Liebig's Extract of Meat company, in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, used to do advertising cards in sets of six, and a common theme for them was scenes from plays and operas (I actually have a framed set of Liebig cards in my kitchen with scenes from Richard III).

Anyway they did a Damnation of Faust set and it's hilarious.

#la damnation de faust #hot faust summer #i should post this on the facebook page for my choir #still obsessed with this damn opera concert thing six weeks later #the top right card depicts the insanely complicated chorus that took up most of our rehearsal time #those flowery girls? that was us

[love1kimono]

Liebig Extract of Meat Company Trade Card with Japanese Doll Festival, ca. 1895

#1890s #advertising #japonism

[pwlanier]

Trade cards for Liebig's Extract of Meat Company Limited.

Wellcome Collection

#ephemera #advertising #trade cards #tobacco cards #meat extract

[debrasvirtualsketchbook]

Virtual Sketchbook 3

WRITING AND LOOKING – our senses emotions and memory will come together with knowledge.

How will you communicate with WORDS what you SEE and FEEL?

DESCRIBE PHYSICAL QUALITIES (THE FACTS)

What is it made of?- colored lithographed cards

How big is it?- 4.1" x 2.8"

(Include details as if you were using words to help a blind person “see” it.)

What colors and shapes are used?

There are a numerous amount of colors and shapes used in this image. There are two girls in green leotard swinging upside down. from a trapeze. They are holding a brown wand which one girl is holding out and passing it to the other. The background is full of green walls that hold cells in them where people are sitting in and watching the trapeze girls for entertainment. Below the swinging girls is a flower pot equal in dimension of the girls. The flowers are pink and orange with green leaves coming off of them. In the left corner of the picture is a tan colored image of a girl and what could be the trademark of the trapeze girls.

What subjects (if any) are represented? The subject of a circus is represented by the trapeze girls.

How was the work designed? The work was designed as a trade card type of picture very similar to baseball trade cards.

Is it balanced? In my definition the picture is not balanced because of the size difference of the flowers and the trapeze girls. The flowers are about the same size as the girls and are placed right next to them.

What is emphasized? Rhythm? Proportion? Rhythm is emphasized as well as proportion.

Contrast? Does it have unity and variety? There is color contrast between the green, red and orange. The image has a wide range of variety from the background to the trademark girl symbol.

THIS PART IS ALL ABOUT YOU:

How does the work make you feel?

The work gives me a feeling of fun and entertainment but it also makes me think that if people were using this picture as a trade card then it is weird that the girls are not named or why isn't the audience applauding. It shows talented girls and how people used to get their entertainment in this era.

How or why does it evoke these feelings? These feelings are evoked from the illustration of the image. The trapeze girls make me feel like i am watching a real live circus just in a still picture.

NOW RESEARCH:

THINKING:

What movement is the art work associated with? color lithography movement in the 1800s. This was commissioned by the Liebig Company, earlier printers and traveling salesmen routinely produced and circulated stock cards.

What does the artwork say about the artist that made it? The art says the artist either loved the circus, especially the trapeze, or the promoter of the circus wanted spread word about it in an illustrative way.

Can you tell what the artist was trying to say? - these were used as coupon but i am not sure exactly wha the artist was trying to say.

THE LAST (most important) PART:

Use what you learn in your research and by looking closely at the artwork to form your own critique of the work (your informed opinion) based partly on the FACTS. Make sure you think about and answer this in your conclusion: based on your research, and everything you have learned so far about art and artists, what is the importance of this work of art to society and/or the world. Be specific. Why did YOU pick it?

I picked this piece of work because at first all of the colors caught my eye but as i looked deeper into it, i realized that the art was a great representation of entertainment in the 1800s and that people wanted to trade these picture of money or as a coupon into the circus. The still picture of the trapeze girls is one that was appreciated in the 1800s as a symbol of what people loved to watch as entertainment. The Liebig company showed this as a way to promote the circus and these were used as advertisement back then.

[2mi3museum]

A Liebig card from 1910 with the content Istanbul in Ottoman Empire...

#2mi3museum #2mi3museum collection #Liebig Cards #LiebigCards #liebig soup trade cards #liebig çorba kartları #Collection #collectibles #cards #1910s #Art #Drawing #painting #picture #history #culture #heritage #ottoman #istanbul

[artfromthefuture]

Liebig Tradecard S1294 - Photography Department by cigcardpix Via Flickr: Liebig's Extract of Meat "Preparation of an Illustrated Paper" German issue, 1934

I worked with a graphic camera like this in the late ’70s in San Francisco.

#trade cards #advertising #ephemera #vintage #Liebig

[oldadvertising]

<strong>Liebig Tradecard S1080 - History of Sicily <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44841559@N03/">by cigcardpix</a></strong>

Liebig's Meat Extract "Main Events in the History of Sicily" German issue, 1913.

2 Naval Battle of Mylae, 260BC

#trade cards #advertising #ephemera #vintage #chromo #Liebig #food #german #1910s

[beautifulcentury]

<strong>Liebig Tradecard S118, Insect Girls <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/44841559@N03/">by cigcardpix</a></strong>

Liebig's Beef Extract "Insect Girls" French issue, 1883

#trade cards #advertising #ephemera #vintage #Liebig #chromo #insect #1880s #illustration

[whatevergreen]

Liebig trade cards depicting ancient pre-colonial ruins in Mexico and Peru. c1930s.

#pre colonial #mexico #liebig #ruins #colorful #1930s #yucatan #maya

[princesselisabethofhesse]

1899

Postcards sent by Tsarina Alexandra to her friend, Gretchen von Fabrice.

Postcard sent from Wolfsgarten to Danzig, on 10 October, 1899

“I send you this card for you to begin a collection – many others will follow. Best love from all. We are enjoying ourselves so much. yr. A”

The following day, Alexandra sent her friend a postcard of Elisabeth with the following note in German:

“Kind regards, nice weather here, your A.”

source: Alix an Gretchen: Briefe der Zarin Alexandra von Russland an Margarethe Freiin von Fabrice. I must recommend this book, as it was a wonderful surprise to me. The book itself looks like a lovely scrapbook and is a little treasure! The design is so special and charming. The format, with the letters, the photographs and the images of written documents, presents and personal belongings,  brings everything to life and reflects the love Alexandra felt for her friend.  I own a few books with letters written by OTMA, Alix or Nicholas, but this is by far the most captivating and personal of them all. Even if I don’t understand German, some letters are in English and the rest is easy to translate. This book is a must in my opinion. I’m so glad I bought it. Here I leave the link just in case you are interested. You won’t regret it!

https://liebig-verlag.de/produkt/alix-an-gretchen-briefe-der-zarin-alexandra-v-russland-an-margarethe-freiin-v-fabrice/

#princess Elisabeth of Hesse #1899 Postcards #1899 Letters & Diary entries #1899

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

Product advertisement Liebig cards with egyptian motives. So: not postcards.

#kartka #card #product card #litografia #egipskie #egyptian #Liebig

[thelastbrunneng]

The Leibig Company issued thousands of sets of lithograph art cards as advertising for its meat extract business from 1872 through 1975. Distinguished by high quality art and extensive descriptive text, they were printed in several languages. Liebig advertisements and slogans border these 4” x 3” cards. 

Further info: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebig%27s_Extract_of_Meat_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justus_von_Liebig

The 1958 Buccaneer cards include:

1 Island of Tortuga

2 Buccaneer Meat

3 Buccaneers Attacked by Spanish Lancers

4 Buccaneer Camp on Tortuga

5 Signing and Acceptance of the Charter

6 The Freebooters

#pirates #piracy #golden age of piracy #trading cards

[mermaidenmystic]

Nereiden and Tritonen/Tritons ~ Liebig Company Fleisch Extract ~ vintage trade cards

"The Liebig Company has been the producer of "Meat Extract". The famous German chemist Justus von Liebig was the inventor of the meat extraction process, which allowed to concentrate and preserve the essential nutrients and flavors of beef in the form of paste or boullion cubes. An English firm, who owned large cattle farms in South America, decided to start the production of the meat extract in 1850 and named it after its inventor. Soon, "Liebig Fleischextrakt" was sold all over the world.

Around 1870 they started to publish fantastic colored lithographed cards and ended in 1975, after having published more than 11,000 different types of cards. Every subject is nearly always in a set made up of six or twelve cards."

http://www.cartolino.com/en/liebig-cards.html

[panchali]

@hindumythologyevent - The Exile of Rama 

I can’t find much information on this, but I’m assuming it’s part of a set of illustrations used to promote Extrait de viande Liebig (Liebig’s Meat Extract Company) sometime in the 19th century ! All kinds of calendars/posters/trading cards/stamps were used for marketing purposes and you can find the rest of the Ramayan works here and some other cool art here.

#ramayana #.post #was looking for pics to use in edits and came across this ! so cool #only five out of the six paintings are available on the link #we'll probably never get to see the missing one ! #there's an mbh painting somewhere in that album too #the lady whose account I linked has collected tons of old illustrations and typography

[warpicshistory]

Capture of Jerusalem by Godfrey of Bouillon, First Crusade, 15 July 1099. Liebig card, published in late 19th or early 20th century. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIkEUpxpaWN/?igshid=o9gglo00lae0