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An 1888
cigarette card
featuring
King Kelly
, a
catcher
for the
Boston Beaneaters
, part of a 50 card set depicting athletes from a variety of sports, including eight
baseball
players. This is an early example of the use of
pointillism
in
printmaking
to create a wide variety of colors with a small number of plates. The pointillist technique was later advanced to create
halftoning
and
Benday dots
.
Card produced by
Goodwin & Company
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