A man holding a trumpet, with flowers, celebrating Saint Cecilia's day. Coloured photographic postcard, 1931.

Paris : Fox, [ca. 1931]

1 photographic postcard : print and gouache ; 13.8 x 8.7 cm

Vive Ste. Cécile. Bears number: 5512. French inscription on verso.

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 2058882i