Victorian Postcard — Two Girls Examining a Box with a Kitten

Two Victorian sisters lean close together over a small decorated box, the older girl guiding the younger through it stroke by stroke, while a curious kitten pads across the rug at their feet. Helen Jackson's chromolithograph ‘The First Lesson’ captures that particular hush of a child concentrating hard for the first time.

A quiet postcard for someone who collects scenes of old-fashioned childhood, or for tucking into an envelope with a note about learning something new together.