Christmas card with Madonna and holly, "To wish you a Happy Christmas – Antique Print
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A window into the past: Christmas card with Madonna and holly, "To wish you a Happy Christmas, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Christmas card with Madonna and holly, "To wish you a Happy Christmas
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A Madonna set among holly sprigs distinguishes this card from the robins and snowy village scenes that filled Victorian mailboxes at Christmas. Cards like this were often printed in color by lithography, and they paired devotional imagery with holly, whose evergreen leaves and red berries stood for everlasting life and the Christmas season. The printed greeting, "To wish you a Happy Christmas," carried the sender's sentiment, so the picture and the words worked together. The gentle, stylized figure shows how late-19th-century Christmas cards borrowed from religious art as the custom of exchanging them grew quickly.
| Original scan | 517 × 818 px |
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| Reference | 209 |
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