c. 1903
Howard Woody, a pioneer researcher of early German printing postcard technologies writes of this postcard that the collotype’s “light hues accent the woman’s layered costumer and create an attractive luminous image that contrasts with the muted background” in “International Postcards Their History, Production and Distribution (Circa 1895 to 1915)” in Delivering Views Distant Cultures in Early Postcards, p. 40. In fact, layers of color were carefully laid down individually in the collotype press in what could be a dozen print runs.