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Postcards on the Posters

Poster

1.

Centre then clockwise

Subject

Centre

Princes Street & North British Hotel from Scott Monument

Top

"HMS Dreadnaught"  -  'Leave it to Jack!'

Upper Right

Playground at Victoria Park, Leith  -  Valentine & Sons

Lower Right

Magpie  - from a series printed in Netherlands

Bottom

Inverness  - Hartmann 'multiview'

Lower Left

A Welsh Railway  -  Valentine & Sons 'Art Colour' series

Upper Left

Edinburgh Ladies' College,  Queen Street, Edinburgh

Postcards on the Posters

Poster

2.

Centre then
clockwise

Subject

Centre

Edinburgh Castle, Scott Monument & Princes Street, Edinburgh

Top

"HMS Dreadnaught"  -  'Leave it to Jack!'

Upper Right

John Knox House in the Royal Mile  Edinburgh

Lower Right

Edinburgh Ladies' College,  Queen Street, Edinburgh

Bottom

"Sing a Song of Sixpence"  -  Randolph Caldecott, Artist

Lower Left

"The Reapers"     -  'Millet's Masterpieces'

In fact, the title should be "The Gleaners"  See 'Reply 1' below 

Upper Left

"Our Holidays" - 'The suggestion' and 'The Reality'  Star Series

Reply

1.

GM Rigg

New Zealand

Thank you to GM Rigg for posting a message in the EdinPhoto Guestbook about one of the postcards on Poster 2:

Poster 2

©  Copyright: Peter Stubbs  -   please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk

GM Rigg wrote:

The Gleaners

"One of the cards is listed as "The Reapers".

It's actually a French painting entitled "The Gleaners".

It depicts French peasant women "gleaning" grain after the harvest is over. I only happen to know this as it's my mum's favourite painting."

GM Rigg, New Zealand:  Message posted in EdinPhoto Guestbook:  March 10, 2012

Reply

The Gleaners

Thank you to GM Rigg for sending the comments above.

This card was published by Misch & Stock's and was printed in Prussia between:

-   1902 (the first year that postcards were printed with a dividing line on the back) and

-  1904 (the year that this card was sent through the post, on 2 February).

The card is numbered '105 in Misch & Stock's "Millet's Masterpieces" series.   The caption on the front of this card reads:

"Millet's Masterpieces  -  The Reapers"

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However, despite this caption on the card, I agree with GM Rigg's comments.  This painting  appears on many Internet pages including this Wikipedia page which includes a thumbnail image of the picture and the following description:

Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh:  March 11, 2013