Prang's Christmas Cards – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures Prang's Christmas Cards in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Prang's Christmas Cards
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A courtship scene beneath a sprig of mistletoe sets this chromolithograph apart from the gallery's other holiday pieces, and its copyright line names L. Prang & Co. of Boston. Louis Prang, a German-born lithographer, did much to popularize the Christmas card in America during the 1880s. Built up from several stones, each printing one color, chromolithographs like this let inexpensive cards look like painted pictures, and the mistletoe recalls the old custom of kissing beneath the plant at Christmas.
| Created / published | c. 1886 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, chromolithograph |
| Notes | L. Prang & Co., Boston |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 933 × 1,346 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215952 |
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