A Happy Christmas card with cherubs, swan and lily – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic image captures A Happy Christmas card with cherubs, swan and lily in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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A Happy Christmas card with cherubs, swan and lily
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Cherubs, a swan and a lily make up the decoration of this Christmas card, a combination that tells you it was designed for the holiday rather than as a straightforward religious scene. Victorian and Edwardian greeting cards often mixed sacred imagery with sweet, sentimental motifs like these, and the cherub, a small winged child, was a favorite for expressing innocence and goodwill. The swan and lily would have carried their own associations: the lily often stood for purity and the Annunciation, while the swan was a common symbol of grace and beauty in popular illustration. Cards like this were exchanged in large numbers once printing became cheap, so they offer a glimpse of everyday seasonal sentiment.
| Original scan | 672 × 881 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (6) |
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