A man holding a fish and some flowers in a basket.

Previous title, replaced August 2022: A man holding a fish and some flowers in a basket, as well as a fishing rod; the fish representing "poissons d'avril" (April fool's jokes). Coloured photographic postcard, 19--.

Paris : Sol, [between 1900 and 1999]

1 photographic postcard : print and gouache ; 13.6 x 8.8 cm

1 avril. Made in France. Bears number: 3098

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. 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 2058868i