Preparing Christmas greens--Making wreaths / drawn by T. De Thulstrup. – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Preparing Christmas greens--Making wreaths / drawn by T. De Thulstrup.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Preparing Christmas greens--Making wreaths / drawn by T. De Thulstrup.
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Thure de Thulstrup, the Swedish-born illustrator who worked for Harper's Weekly for many years, drew this wood engraving for the magazine's Christmas number of December 25, 1880. Its focus is the labor behind holiday decoration: men and women gathering evergreen boughs and shaping them into wreaths, a practice tied closely to the season's domestic rituals in American homes. Wood engravings like this one were the main way readers of the period saw such scenes, since photographs could not yet be reproduced cheaply on the printed page. The picture offers a useful record of how Christmas greenery was prepared in 1880.
| Created / published | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1880.Wood engravings 1880. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 24, 1880 Dec. 25, p. 821. |
| Subjects | Wreaths--1880. Christmas decorations--1880. Christmas trees--1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,285 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193777 |
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