Victorian Christmas card with a winged fairy and greeting verse – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Victorian Christmas card with a winged fairy and greeting verse. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Victorian Christmas card with a winged fairy and greeting verse
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Winged fairies were a favorite motif on Victorian Christmas cards, and this one pairs its figure with a greeting verse set in the card's printed panel. Cards like this grew out of the 1840s, when commercial printers in England began producing small illustrated greetings for the season, and by the late 1800s they were mass-produced in color lithography. Fairies, angels and other winged figures appeared often because they suggested goodwill, light and the spirit of the holiday, and the rhyming verses reflected the sentimental tastes of the period. Look closely at the lettering and border, which show how much care went into these cheap, cheerful keepsakes.
| Original scan | 988 × 627 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (49) |
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