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Ye Merrie Christmas Greetings, With Happy Shouts And Merry Noise – Vintage Wall Art

Ye Merrie Christmas Greetings, With Happy Shouts And Merry Noise — historic image
Ye Merrie Christmas Greetings, With Happy Shouts And Merry Noise. Historic image from the Christmas collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

A window into the past: Ye Merrie Christmas Greetings, With Happy Shouts And Merry Noise, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Ye Merrie Christmas Greetings, With Happy Shouts And Merry Noise

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Ye Merrie Christmas Greetings, With Happy Shouts And Merry Noise takes its title from the old English carol style, with its archaic spelling of "merrie" and its promise of cheerful racket, and that wording tells you the picture is meant to feel like a festive scene from an earlier age. Holiday cards and illustrated prints of this kind were popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when printers turned Christmas into a familiar set of images: bright colors, families gathered, and a sense of old-fashioned warmth. Worth noticing is how the artist leans on noise and motion, which lets the scene feel lively even in a still image.

Original scan1,800 × 1,169 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi
Reference100 (622)

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