Christmas Eve--Santa Claus waiting for the children to get to sleep / Th. Nast. – Antique Print
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(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Christmas Eve--Santa Claus waiting for the children to get to sleep / Th. Nast.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Christmas Eve--Santa Claus waiting for the children to get to sleep / Th. Nast.
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Santa Claus is shown lingering in a child's room on Christmas Eve, waiting for the children to fall asleep before he begins his work. The scene is an engraving by Thomas Nast, the German-born American cartoonist who did much to shape the modern picture of Santa as a jolly, bearded gift-bringer. Nast drew Santa repeatedly for *Harper's Weekly* in the 1860s and 1870s, and this print comes from *Christmas Drawings for the Human Race*, a collection of his holiday pictures published by Harper & Brothers. Its domestic, affectionate tone shows how Nast's images helped turn Christmas Eve into a family ritual.
| Created / published | [1890?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1890.Engravings 1890. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Christmas Drawings for the Human Race / Thomas Nast. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1890, c1889, pl. [21?] |
| Subjects | Santa Claus--1890. Christmas--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,117 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-168994 |
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