Christmas in the South - egg-nog party / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. – Historic 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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This rare antique engraving captures Christmas in the South - egg-nog party / drawn by W.L. Sheppard. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Christmas in the South - egg-nog party / drawn by W.L. Sheppard.
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A holiday egg-nog party is the subject of this wood engraving, which Harper's Weekly published on a supplement page at the close of 1870. The drawing by illustrator W.L. Sheppard presents Christmas in the South during the years after the Civil War, when the magazine often sent readers scenes of Southern life. Egg-nog, a rich blend of eggs, cream, sugar and spirits, was a longstanding Christmas custom in many Southern homes, and the record notes that both children and adults appear in the scene. The picture offers a glimpse of domestic holiday celebration as Northern readers were encountering it in print.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1870.Wood engravings 1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1870 Dec. 31, Supplement, p. 868. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1870. Parties--United States--1870. Children & adults--United States--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-185757 |
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