A Favourite Author (1905) — Edmund Blair Leighton

She has stopped noticing the tea. Edmund Blair Leighton's A Favourite Author (1905) places a young woman on a window seat with her book — pink roses on the sill, the summer garden behind the leaded glass, the silver pot cooling on the small table. Time has gone the way it goes when a book has caught you completely; the signed initial and date “L 1905” sit quietly in the corner of the picture, marking the year exactly.

The card is an A6 art postcard, 350 g/m², glossy on the front — a thoughtful enclosure with a recommended book, a gift for readers, or a postcrossing card for anyone who keeps a shelf of favourites. A natural companion to Leighton's later interior Straying Thoughts (1913). See the rest of the Edmund Blair Leighton collection.