Our Christmas Dream – Antique Print
(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.)
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Our Christmas Dream
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*Our Christmas Dream* is a line illustration that ran in *The Illuminated Magazine* in 1844, on page 123 of volume 4. Its catalog tags point to gluttony and a shelf, suggesting a holiday scene about abundance and overindulgence, though the record itself is unverified. The year fell just after Dickens's *A Christmas Carol* (December 1843), and periodicals of the period were filling their pages with festive sentiment and comic excess. The title's promise of a dreamed holiday table makes the image worth reading as both a celebration and a joke.
| Medium | 1 print : line illustration. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1844 |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Illuminated Magazine, v. 4, 1844, p. 123. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Gluttony; Holidays--Christmas; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,281 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129777 |
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