[Christmas card for 1948 showing man, woman, and baby at table] / Castellón. – Vintage Print
![[Christmas card for 1948 showing man, woman, and baby at table] / Castellón., [1948] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/25/254a548c56f4-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Christmas card for 1948 showing man, woman, and baby at table] / Castellón., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Christmas card for 1948 showing man, woman, and baby at table] / Castellón.
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A seated man, a woman, and a baby gather at a table in this 1948 Christmas card, a holiday image built around the household rather than the season's usual symbols. Made by Castellón as an etching and aquatint, the card was printed as an intaglio plate and signed in pencil beneath the image, which suggests the artist treated it as a work in its own right and not only as a greeting. Domestic scenes like this were common in holiday cards of the late 1940s, when many families were reuniting after the Second World War. The Library of Congress holds the print in its Prints and Photographs Division.
| Created / published | [1948] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching and aquatint. |
| Genre | Christmas cards 1940-1950.Intaglio prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil below plate. |
| Subjects | Families--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180042 |
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