Stirring the Christmas pudding – 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.)
Description
This historic photograph of Stirring the Christmas pudding brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Stirring the Christmas pudding
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Stirring the Christmas pudding is a photograph of a wood engraving that ran in the Christmas supplement of Harper's Weekly on December 30, 1876, so the picture was already one step removed from life when it reached readers. The scene shows children gathered around a kitchen task that was a fixture of the holiday in Victorian households, when families took turns stirring a heavy suet pudding, often with a wish made as the batter was turned. Illustrations like this one helped shape a domestic image of Christmas that many American readers recognized from their own homes, and the photograph preserves that printed version for later study.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1870-1880.Photographic prints 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Photo of wood engraving published in Harper's weekly supplement, 1876 Dec. 30. |
| Subjects | Christmas--1870-1880. Children cooking--1870-1880. Domestic life--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 901 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170334 |
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