Christmas greeting card with child on rocking horse – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This historic image of Christmas greeting card with child on rocking horse brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Christmas greeting card with child on rocking horse
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A child astride a wooden rocking horse makes this card's subject plain, and the toy itself does most of the storytelling. Rocking horses were a favorite gift in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when they were often carved by hand and painted with real horsehair or leather trim, so a Christmas card built around one speaks to the holiday's focus on home and children. Printed greetings like this became popular in that era as cheap color lithography spread, letting families send seasonal wishes to relatives who lived far away. Look closely at how the artist frames the scene, since the rocking horse is usually shown as the centerpiece of a family's holiday morning.
| Original scan | 1,585 × 2,400 px · prints to 5 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 100 (592) |
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