Vintage Victorian Hat Lady,

Vintage artwork by Arthur Thiele invokes a comical scene of the Victorian era. A fashionable lady with an enormous decorated hat is descending a staircase while carrying her little white dog. Two gentleman are trying to go up the staircase on either side of her, but have to duck out of the way as her gigantic hat passes over them. The German artist, Carl Robert Arthur Thiele (1860-1936) commonly went by the name Arthur Thiele. He was an illustrator of books, sheet music and postcards. He was famous for his comical anthropomorphic animals dressed in clothing and depicted in human-like scenes. Dachshunds were a favourite subject of his. In addition to animals, other subjects he illustrated were sports postcards, vegetables brought to life, snowmen, bathing beauties, and WW1 era propaganda postcards. The Internet is full of references confusing Carl Robert Arthur Thiele with another German painter of his time named Julius Arthur Thiele who painted landscapes. They are not the same artist. This card is blank inside for your own message.