1860 / 1869, France

1860 / 1869, France

Identifier
E.2317-1953
Acquisition
Bequeathed by Guy Tristram Little
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Description

Unknown. First Communion themed Greeting card. French, 1860s. Greeting card, purple marbled paper with a young girl in a communion dress holding a rosary, a prayer book, and a candle applied on the top, the figure with hand-coloured lithographed face and hands and dressed in applied white gauze/muslin to create her dress and veil. Set in a silver-paper lace frame with muslin curtains.