Dimensions: 9 x 14 cm. (3.5 x 5.5″)

Publisher/Editor: Theodor Stroefer, Nuremberg

Condition: Postally unused, backside empty. Good condition with some signs of age including surface marks.

Notes: A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences. A pastoral is a work of this genre, also known as bucolic, from the Greek βουκολικόν, from βουκόλος, meaning a cowherd. (Wikipedia)