A Peaceful Easter (RT 01) Card

Spread the Good News to family and friends that “He Is Risen, He Is Risen” with this handsome card simulating stained glass in rich dark blues, bright spring greens, soft warm yellows, and silver greys. Done in the Liberty Style, the British version of Art Nouveau, a large central cross containing text forms the focal point. Two small panels depicting stylized Easter lilies fill the spaces between the cross’s transverse beam and the top part of the upright. Two long rectangular panels flank the lower part with figured scenes representing two seated angels at the empty tomb on the left and the Three Marys come to anoint the body of Jesus on the right. The text reproduces the lyrics of an English hymn composed in 1846 by Cecil Frances Alexander (née Humphreys; 1818-1895), a poet and writer of hymns, especially hymns for children. + Inside: Details of the two lateral panels with figures arranged side by side. + Image Credit (RT 01): Antique images from an embossed postcard in chromolithography entitled A Peaceful Easter, Easter Hymns Series, No. 714, originally published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, London, England, and printed in Saxony, Germany, 1912, from the designer’s private collection.