Victorian Easter Greeting Card Girl with Rabbit & Flowers
Text on Card
Поздравляю съ праздникомъ Св. Пасхи.
Description
"Easter" the card proclaims, introducing a charming Victorian-era greeting featuring a young girl in a pink dress adorned with white lace collar and cuffs. She wears a white hair bow and pink stockings, holding a striped green Easter egg and pussy willow branches in front of her, while carrying a large woven basket filled with purple violets and a rabbit on her arm behind her. The composition celebrates the renewal and innocence associated with Easter through carefully selected flora and fauna, rendered in soft chromolithographic tones against a warm cream background. This Russian-language card exemplifies the delicate aesthetic sensibilities of late-Victorian greeting card design, where pastoral imagery and childhood innocence merged with holiday symbolism.
Subjects
young girl, rabbit, basket, violets, pussy willows, spring flowers, Easter egg
Printing Notes
Hand-colored chromolithographic process with embossed details on perimeter. Decorative scalloped border frame.
