Hand-colored postcard of a couple with flowers and French verse – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Hand-colored postcard of a couple with flowers and French verse comes to life in this vintage postcard, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Hand-colored postcard of a couple with flowers and French verse
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A hand-colored postcard, with a couple shown among painted flowers and a line of French verse, places this piece in the sentimental Valentine's trade of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cards like this were often printed in quantity and then colored by hand, sometimes by women working in small workshops, so each copy varies slightly in tint and shading. The French lettering signals the fashion for romantic phrasing borrowed from Continental greeting cards, which were prized for their elegance. Look closely at the flowers and the pale washes of color, which show how much finishing work went into what was otherwise a mass-produced sheet.
| Original scan | 592 × 904 px |
|---|---|
| Reference | Img129 |
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