A man holding flowers and a cane. Coloured photographic postcard, 1925.

[Place of publication not identified] : Jos, 1925.

1 photographic postcard : print and gouache ; 13.7 x 8.6 cm

Bears number: 196. Indistinct inscription on verso, possibly in French, with postal stamp "Silenrieux 1925."

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: An example of a genre of postcard popular throughout Europe in ca. 1905-ca. 1940, which shows a young man, often wearing make-up, holding flowers, or engaged in feminine roles, and which were sent to men and women to mark saints' days, send congratulations, or convey sympathies. The postcards are often hand-coloured, as here. The styles have 'dated': viewers in a later time perceive them as comic; the men seem effete and stiffly formal; and the sometimes heavily made-up or re-touched male figures appear to be stereotypical 'queens'

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Wellcome Collection 2058827i