Ivy smothers the old brick gables of Milton's Cottage in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire — the refuge where the blind poet John Milton fled the Great Plague of London in 1665 and where he completed Paradise Lost. In this lush Edwardian colour art print, a woman in a white bonnet and red shawl pauses at the picket gate, dwarfed by the rambling cottage that has become one of England's most cherished literary shrines. The artist signed the card simply "Jotter" — a pseudonym used by Walter Hayward Young, a prolific Edwardian postcard illustrator known for his soft, painterly views of English cottages and countryside. The "Pinachrome Series," printed in England, used a warm chromolithographic process that gives the foliage an almost luminous golden-green glow. The cottage, now a museum, still stands largely unchanged from this depiction, making this card a charming record of how Edwardian tourists encountered and idealised their literary heritage.