Jenny Nyström — Woman Reading in a Hammock, 1919

A July afternoon, a cotton dress, and a book: Nyström's 1919 hammock scene is one of the few explicitly dated summer cards in the collection. The young woman lies absorbed in her reading, surrounded by the dappled greens of a garden. It is an early 20th-century portrait of literary leisure — quiet, educated, and unhurried. From the Jenny Nyström collection, this card appeals to book lovers, summer collectors, and anyone who knows that a hammock and a good book are their own kind of destination.