A man admiring a bowl of flowers. Coloured photographic postcard, 192-.

Date:
[between 1920 and 1929]
Reference:
2047186i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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A man admiring a bowl of flowers. Coloured photographic postcard, 192-. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A man touching the petals while holding a cigarette. The flowers, vase, man's tie and handkerchief have been hand-coloured.

Publication/Creation

[Belgium] : Roto, [between 1920 and 1929]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard ; print and gouache ; 13.7 x 8.8 cm

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Lettering

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd. Fabrication belge. ... Bears number: 5942. Inscription to Mejufrow Marie Groenewegen, in Haarlem, from Henry Van den Berg, date stamped 11 September 1923 or 1928 written on verso.

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "A hand-colored photographic greetings card, of a type produced extensively throughout Europe in c. 1905 – c. 1940. The styles have 'dated' badly; viewers in a later time perceive them as comic; the men seem effete and stiffly formal, and the occasionally heavily made-up or re-touched male figures appear to be stereotypical 'queens'."

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2047186i

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  • Romantic fantasy and comic postcards

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