St. Teresa of Avila (M 008) Oval Ceramic Tree Decoration

You have several options here: 1) Leave the ornament as is with the same image on both sides. 2) Hide or delete the featured saint’s image on the back to reveal our suggested text. Our text, which is provided for demonstration purposes only, may, of course, be replaced with a greeting, a Biblical passage, or any other text of your choosing. 3) Delete or hide the featured saint’s image and the suggested text to reveal a solid coloured field ready to receive your own design. To choose a new background colour, see the suggested coordinating hues on the Colour Palette postcard for this image. + Image Source (M 008): Antique nineteenth-century hand-coloured engraving of St. Teresa of Jesus, No. 12, loose print probably from a Lives of the Saints book, original publisher unknown. From the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. + Feast: October 15 + The engraving is a variant of a famous 1827 painting of the saint by François Gérard (1770-1837), a French NeoClassical portrait painter with leanings towards Romanticism. In the engraving, the setting has been changed from a darkened church or chapel where the saint kneels at the foot of a column to the saint’s cell where she kneels before a crucifix on a table or desk. The engraving’s reversal of the painting can be explained by the engraver’s failure to etch the printing plate while looking at the original in a mirror. See my Media section for related images.