Vintage Halloween Greeting Card Woman with Jack-o-Lanterns and Black Cat Early 1900s

Vintage Halloween Greeting Card Woman with Jack-o-Lanterns and Black Cat Early 1900s

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OccasionHalloween
EraEdwardian (1900-1915)
Decade1900s-1910s
Stylechromolithograph
Colorsmauve, gray, cream, black, ochre
Vibesanthropomorphic, whimsical

Text on Card

On Hallowe'en there's fun and glee, Don't fail to join the company.

Description

A shadowy background dotted with bats provides the atmospheric setting for this enchanting Edwardian-era Halloween greeting card, which captures a woman in a mauve dress leaning over a large bowl or cauldron. She is flanked by two carved jack-o-lanterns, with a black cat sitting to her right. The muted color palette and lithographic printing technique are characteristic of early 20th-century greeting card artistry.

Subjects

woman, jack-o-lanterns, black cat, bats, cauldron or bowl

Printing Notes

Hand-colored chromolithograph with fine halftone detailing typical of Edwardian commercial printing

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