This magnet pictures a c.1870 lithographed label for vintage Victory brand tobacco by T. C. Williams Co. of Virginia.
The illustration features a female warrior fresh from the kill, her weapon still embedded in the bleeding chest of her half neked foe.
The original label was printed by a prominent Richmond, Virginia printer of the time, A. Hoen.
In addition to his tobacco firm, Thomas C. Williams Sr., founded the School of Law at the University of Richmond, and a line of Thomas C. William descendents.
The illustration probably depicts Brigantia, a Celtic goddess, but I have an alternate theory that it's Queen Boudica -- wearing the helmet of her defeated victim, a Roman soldier.
The name Boudica is derived from the Celtic name for the Goddess of Victory. Queen Boudica is customarily depicted as a redhead.
Around 60 A.D. when Queen Boudica led a tribe in an uprising against the Roman Empire Colchester, Essex, she was propelled by righteous revenge. Fueling her fury:
The Romans dismissed her inheritance of Iceni lands from her late husband and demanded repayment of loans the late Emperor Claudius had made to her husband. Was like the mortgage company took the collateral and expected full payment too.
The Romans destroyed groves of the Druid's sacred oak trees on Anglesey.
The Romans flogged her and raped her daughters.
Boudica's citizen army retaliated by burning London to the ground and killing over 70,000 Roman soldiers. Ultimately the Romans won and Boudica died an untimely death but she definitely got some payback first.
My theory is that the illustrator was an 1890s feminist who chose to depict a scene in which Boudicca has treated a Roman soldier to some of what her daughters were given and celebrates by plopping his helmet on her head.
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Fridge Magnet Woman Warrior Vanquishing Enemy Boudica or Brigantia
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