Victorian Christmas card with fairies and red amaryllis – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Victorian Christmas card with fairies and red amaryllis, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Victorian Christmas card with fairies and red amaryllis
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Fairies and a red amaryllis are the details that set this card apart from the angel-and-nativity scenes that dominate its board. Victorian Christmas cards of this kind were a relatively new commercial product in the 1870s and 1880s, when printers such as Marcus Ward and Raphael Tuck began mass-producing chromolithographed greetings for a middle class that was sending cards in growing numbers. Fairies, popular in illustration at the time, were often used to suggest a gentle, whimsical sentiment for the season rather than a religious one. The amaryllis, a winter-blooming flower associated with the holiday, reflects the period's taste for floral motifs printed in bright, layered color.
| Original scan | 672 × 878 px |
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| Reference | Fairies & Elves (13) |
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