Jenny Nyström — Christmas Shopping in the City, 1909

Few Jenny Nyström cards carry the precision of a date — and 1909 is confirmed in her own hand at lower right. Here she steps away from domestic hearth and country snow to place her subjects squarely in the city: an elegantly dressed woman in a red fur-trimmed coat strides along a gas-lit street, a feathered hat commanding the night, while a blonde girl follows with the Christmas packages. A card for lovers of Belle Époque fashion and postcard history, and a distinctive piece of the Jenny Nyström collection.