The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chromolithographed cigarette card showing swordsman Duncan C. Ross in pink tights beside crossed sabers and a ceramic urn, 18

Chromolithograph trade card of Captain Mackenzie in profile, red bow tie, against a checkerboard, advertising cigarettes.

Chromolithograph cigarette card of bearded chess player Steinitz in a blue jacket against a checkered chessboard.

Chromolithograph cigarette card of a bearded man in a dark coat seated at a chessboard, titled Zukertort Chess, 1888.

Chromolithograph cigarette card of Beecher, Yale football captain, in a white jersey and red cap holding a football.

Trade card of William Byrd Page as a high jumper in white uniform and red shoes on a grassy field, 1888.

Chromolithographed trade card of jockey &quot;Snapper&quot; Garrison in red cap and orange jacket, with laurel wreath and horseshoe.

Engraving of Venus reclining nude beside a sleeping Cupid, with a flying cherub holding a dove, in a garden setting.

Chromolithograph trade card of jockey McLaughlin in red jacket and cream breeches holding a riding crop, with a horse rider b

Chromolithograph trading card of jockey Isaac Murphy in green silks and cap, framed by a horseshoe, 1888.

Cigarette card portrait of jockey Charles Wood in pink cap and yellow jacket before a Union Jack flag.

Cigarette card showing a man in striped jacket holding a tennis racket on a grass court, captioned Beekman, 1888.

Chromolithograph trade card of a mustached man in a striped headband holding a tennis racket, labeled Lawn Tennis, Dwight.

Illustrated trading card of a man in striped blazer holding a tennis racket on a grass court, labeled Sears.

Chromolithograph trading card of a man named Taylor in a striped cap and shirt, with crossed tennis rackets and a Lawn Tennis

Etching of a female dancing figure in flowing classical drapery holding two wreaths aloft.

Engraving of Mercury handing infant Bacchus to nymphs by a stream, with a satyr, grapevines and swans in a landscape.

Sepia print of nude Diana reclining in a forest clearing beside a bow, with nymphs and an altar fire in the background.

Engraving of Galatea in a shell chariot pulled by dolphins, with nymphs, a cupid, a triton and waves.

Etching of the Temple of Antoninus columns at right, with cattle, sheep, figures and Palatine ruins in the Campo Vaccino.

Engraving of a high priest joining the hands of a veiled young woman and an elderly man with a flowering staff, before a meno

Chromolithograph trading card of Captain Bogardus, a marksman with mustache, halo and laurels, wearing gold medals.

Etching of a high priest joining a veiled woman and a bearded man holding a staff, with a candelabra and onlookers behind.

Chromolithograph cigarette card of a mustached shirtless oarsman in a rowing boat, with another rower behind him on the water

Trading card portrait of rower Jake Gaudaur in a red and yellow striped jersey, arms crossed, with crossed oars and water beh

Trading card portrait of Hanlan, an oarsman, with a rower in a racing scull below, 1888.

Chromolithograph trade card of Teemer, an oarsman, with crossed arms in a pink shirt, advertising Old Judge cigarettes.

Chromolithograph cigarette card portrait of James Albert, a mustached man in a dark coat with red tie and flag pin.

Trade card of Patrick Fitzgerald, a pedestrian athlete in red top and white knickerbockers, arms crossed beside a tree on a b

Chromolithograph card of Rowell, a mustached pedestrian athlete in a light blue sleeveless top with a medal and striped sash.