Christmas - Gathering Evergreens – Historic Reproduction
![Christmas - Gathering Evergreens, [1858] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7d/7d2a6eb26c0b-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Christmas - Gathering Evergreens, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Christmas - Gathering Evergreens
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Winslow Homer engraved this wood engraving, which ran in *Harper's Weekly* in 1858, when he was still early in his career as an illustrator. It shows people gathering evergreen boughs, a winter task tied to decorating homes for the holiday. Illustrated weeklies such as *Harper's* often printed seasonal scenes like this at Christmas, bringing rural and domestic customs to city readers. The record's date comes from an older caption card and has not been independently verified, but the sheet's place in the magazine offers a useful window into how Homer began his work.
| Created / published | [1858] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Engr. by Winslow Homer. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2, (1858), p. 820. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Artist's Works--Homer; Winter scenes; Holidays--Christmas; Artists, Publ. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135163 |
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