Christmas tree at Windsor Castle / drawn by J.L. Williams. – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Christmas tree at Windsor Castle / drawn by J.L. Williams. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Christmas tree at Windsor Castle / drawn by J.L. Williams.
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The title places this scene at Windsor Castle, where the royal family is shown gathered around a decorated fir tree, a rare sight in an English print of the period. The wood engraving, drawn by J. L. Williams, ran in the 1848 Christmas supplement of *The Illustrated London News*, a weekly that reached a large readership at home and abroad. Prince Albert had brought the German custom of the Christmas tree into the royal household in the early 1840s, and images like this one helped make the tree a familiar part of middle-class English holidays.
| Created / published | 1848 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1840-1850.Wood engravings 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: The Illustrated London news, Christmas supplement, 1848, p. 409. |
| Subjects | Christmas trees--England--London--1840-1850. Families--England--London--1840-1850. Christmas--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,279 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-193576 |
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