A place for show-and-tell, wondering aloud, and wandering the trails of curiosity . . . Comments, corrrections, additional information, fresh insights, other interpretations, more images, or related observations will be welcomed!
This was a stock cut, used by quite a few photographers, usually printed (as here), sometimes made into a rubber stamp.
There were a number of other very similar, often more crude, stock scenes which seem to be adaptations of this one.