Antique & Vintage Postcards

Shafts of jewel-coloured light pour through the towering Perpendicular Gothic screen that guards the entrance to Gloucester Cathedral's Lady Chapel, while three Edwardian visitors — a woman in a long teal skirt flanked by two men in dark suits — pause in quiet contemplation in this rich Tuck "Oilette" chromolithograph. Founded in 1089, Gloucester Cathedral is celebrated for its massive Norman masonry, its fan-vaulted cloister (the first in England), and the great east window — the largest medieval stained-glass window in the world — glimpsed here in glowing fragments beyond the carved oak screen. The Lady Chapel, rebuilt 1457–99, is described on the reverse as "one of the largest in Great Britain." The Tuck royal-appointment crest and "Oilette" trade dress appear on the undivided back, placing manufacture firmly in the pre-divided-back era (c. 1901–1904). Signed in the lower right corner by the artist. Unused; colours remain strong with minor surface handling.