A jewel-toned Pre-Raphaelite beauty pauses in golden afternoon light, her auburn braids falling over a richly embroidered gold and sage gown as she reads a letter — perhaps a New Year's wish just arrived — beside a leaded diamond-pane window framed by lush areca palms. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons under copyright, this exquisite chromolithograph greeting card-postcard hybrid bears the sentiment "A blithe New Year be thine" on the front and on the reverse a full illuminated poem by Eden Hooper rendered in ornate medieval calligraphy with gilded drop capitals: "For all the wealth and state / Of prince and potentate, / Of East or West / They are but poor unless / The one wealth, Happiness, / Enrich the rest! / Not therefore least of gifts / Is one which simply lifts / Some loving voice / A voice whose owner prays / All seasons and all days / May you rejoice!" The card reflects the golden age of Tuck's art publishing, when the firm employed leading Victorian illustrators and pioneered high-quality chromolithographic greeting cards exported worldwide. The woman's pearl-and-ruby headband, drop necklace, and ornate bodice embroidery are rendered with remarkable finesse, firmly in the aesthetic of the Anglo-aesthetic movement of the 1880s–1890s. Some age-toning, corner wear, and surface foxing consistent with 130+ years; the chromolithographic image retains vivid color saturation.