See It On A Postcard's Thursday Postcard Hunt is looking for Song Birds
A warm sunny day and to see skylarks soaring to sing is bliss indeed. Valentine's published a popular series of postcards featuring Winifred Austen's bird paintings. This card was sent to a Mrs Roxby Hall languishing in Leeds Infirmary hospital in the 1950s wishing her a speedy recovery and to soon rise from her bed and be singing like the skylark.
Austin (1876-1964) was an illustrator, painter, etcher and aquatint engraver known for her detailed depictions of small mammals and birds portrayed in their day to day life.
Bringing happiness, a birds chorus.
5 comments:
These are really song birds!
Very nice, I can imagine them singing
I've always wanted to hear a skylark (in real life)
Both are very pretty postcards!
The girl in the tree is so precious! I wonder if she's teaching them to sing?
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