A letter from home by Peter Paul Marshall - Postcard

A Letter from Home by Scottish artist Peter Paul Marshall (1830–1900) captures a quiet and intimate moment of nineteenth-century domestic life. A young woman sits beside an open window, holding a letter in her hands, while the garden outside fills the room with soft daylight and greenery.

Marshall creates a delicate contrast between the girl's dark dress and lace collar and the fresh botanical landscape beyond the window. The letter becomes the emotional centre of the composition: a small object connecting the private world of the sitter with someone, and somewhere, beyond the room.

The painting belongs to the tradition of Victorian genre art, in which ordinary moments of reading, correspondence and domestic life were transformed into carefully observed scenes of everyday experience. The flowers, open window and handwritten letter add a sense of intimacy and quiet anticipation.

This fine-art postcard is a natural choice for lovers of Victorian painting, historic correspondence, reading and the timeless charm of handwritten letters. A beautiful piece of art to send through the mail or add to a postcrossing collection.

Density -350 g/m

Glossy lamination on the front side of the postcard.

Size - 10*15cm